MORE SERIOUS TONE.
AT THE BRITISH COURT. TASTES OF THEIR MAJESTIES. Indications are that Hie King and Queen intend lo give their Court a more serious and more intellectual lone'. Recent guests at Windsor Castle included Hie I’.ict Laureate. Mr John Masfleld. and Mr Osberl Sitwell, the |>oet; while it is recalled that knight hoods \\pvr conferred, on Mr Hugh Walpole', the novelist. Mr Muirhoad Bone, the artist, and Mr Arnold Bax. I he musician, among the Coronation The King's tastes run lo history, Diographi, and political economy, while
the Queen’s favourite authors include Hardy and Thackeray. Stic favours composers like Chopin. Mozart. Brahms and Schubert, and does not jazz. The Princesses are being brouc-JM up »•• ap preciale good literature and music I Princess Elizabeth practises the piano j daily, and is making rapid progress ( She was vcr> del.i hted when fold that j her parents would lake her to Wimble I don this \ear. The King, wlm has ! Pined at Wimbledon li.mx l . times coaches his. daughters?. who plnv lo* of tenm-
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20246, 15 July 1937, Page 3
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