PRINCESS MARY’S HOME.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18004, 26 April 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)

PRINCESS MARY’S HOME.

BLUE COLOUR SCHEME. Princess Mary’s taste for the delicate shade of blue .which she popularised for. women's wear extends to the decoration of her new home, Harewood House, where it is expected she and Lord Harewood will take up residence early in AugustThe house is being redecorated and remodelled under her supervision, and this shade of blue will form part of the decorative scheme. On at least three days a week Princess Mary motors to Harewood from Goidsborough Hall, near Knaresborough, and spends some hours superintending the execution of her own ideas in the transformation taking piacc inside the house. Princess Mary’s ideas of the ideal home are distinctly modern. Several walls have been removed to provide lighter and more airy rooms, and two electric lifts are being installed. Frescoes of Hunting Scenes. One of her principal interests is the nursery on the top floor in the east wing. Here Lord Harewood spent his babyhood, and here the present Viscount Lascelles and the Hon. Gerald Laseelles will play. The nursery will have walls of a light blue shade, and I understand that

princess Mary will probably ask for a fresco of tiny hunting scenes, for both Viscount Laseelles and his brother have a keen love of horses and of the open air. The sitting-room of the late Earl of Ilarewood is being made larged by the removal of a wall, and this will be Princess Mary’s room.