VICTORIA'S SHILLING SUNSHADE.
During one of her visits to the south of France the Queen noticed in a shop in Nice, I believe, a very pretty little black and white sunshade exhibited for sale at the low sum of one shilling. A sunshade for a shilling, and such a pretty one, too ! Her Majesty was charmed, and for once in her life experienced the thrill of securing a real bargain. I have it on authority that rarely bad anything so cheap been seen even at a clearance sale. Alas, for the feelings of her mortified daughters 1 The Queen carried that * odious ’ little shilling sunshade in season and ont of season, the whole summer through. She even desired to retnrn to her first love with renewed ardour the following year, but by dint of much coaxing and persuasion from the Princess of Wales, to whose gentle influence the Queen is very amenable, she was induced to relinquish it.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XX, 15 May 1897, Page 619
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158VICTORIA'S SHILLING SUNSHADE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XX, 15 May 1897, Page 619
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