DUCHESS OF KENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 56, 8 March 1939, Page 2

DUCHESS OF KENT

INTEREST IN CHILDREN REMA R K ABLE 1 ’ EKSO N ALU Y. Speaking from her home in Devonport, Tasmania, Dame Enid Lyons said recently that Australians would have a great admiraAon for the Duchess of Kent. “No reports of her beauty and her charm are exaggerated,” said Dame Enid. “She is an outstandingly beautiful woman. She has remarkable personality, also, but to me her most striking attribute is her amazing vitality, which will make her tremendously popular in Australia., She is full of vitality and interest in people and in things. “You see photographs of her wheeling a perambulator. She really is a mother a mothers in Australia know' mothers. I know perfectly well that the admiration people of Australia have now for the Duchess will turn rapidly into love when they come to know her. “I met her when the Priii e minister and I went to present the geld cup Australia sent as a wedding present to the Duke and Duchess. I was struck then, although it is not often mentioned, by the great beauty cl her speaking voice. It is a contralto voice of a very musical quality. "The Duchess has a keen sense of humour, and is extremely interested in children. She takes a keen interest in art, too, and has inherited her father's talent for drawing.” Although the Duchess was renowned for her fashionable dressing, she*was never elaborately gowned, Dame Enid added. "She always looks very smart, Irilt is always simply dressed,” she added. "The only time I saw her elaborately dressed was on the day of the Coronation.”