PRINCESS LOUISE.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17611, 16 January 1929, Page 5

PRINCESS LOUISE.

A CHARMING COMPLIMENT. The 81-year-old Princess Louise was paid a charming compliment recently when the men of the 13th London Regiment, of which the Princess is the colonel, decided quite spontaneously to pay their respects to their royal chief before dismissing. They marched with fixed bayonets to Kensington Palace, where Princess Louise lives, and, drawing up on the green, paid their tribute with colours flying and band playing. The Princess, in spite of her recent ill-health, came ' out and inspected the line and chatted to a few flf the men. Afterwards, the commanding officer asked leave to show the Princess “what they thought of her," and the Princess said: “I don’t know what you mean, but you may.” Whereupon men and officers, with caps on swords and bayonets, gave three cheers. Deeply touched by this evidence of affection, Princess Louise wished the men a happy return to civil life. At this time of the year Princess Louise used generally to be in Scotland, but now she rarely leaves Kensington Palace for long. She lias very pleasant quarters there, which she has decorated according to her owrn ideas, and, in some details, with her own hands. Formerly she used to entertain a succession of guests distinguished in artistic and professional ways, for, more than any other of Queen Victoria's sons and daughters, did Princess Louise contrive to make friends outside the royal circle.