TWO OF A KIND.
The late Mrs Keeley used to tell the following story about, the visit she paid to the Queen at Buckingham Palace on the occasion o! the jubilee in 1887. Being incredulous of the genuineness of the invitation, she was disposed to treat the royal command as a joke, and wrote a rather sarcastic letter to the official, a personal friend, who had addressed it to her. This he gave to the Queen, and the veteran actress was a little disconcerted wlhen Her Majesty told her she had read the letter. Mrs Keeley begged that it should lie restored to her. “No, no, Mrs Keeley,” answered the Queen, “it is safely pasted in my autograph book. You'll never get it again. On being presented, Mrs Keeley excused herself from making a low courtesy by saying. “Your -Majesty, 1 have rheumatism in my knees, and I cannot courtesy.” “Mrs Keeley,” replied the Queen, “I can't either,” and the veteran actress was put at her ease by the homeliness of the remark and its common touch of nature which made the two women kin.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XXII, 25 November 1899, Page 960
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185TWO OF A KIND. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XXII, 25 November 1899, Page 960
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