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Compared to Mary the late great Victoria was a spendthrift. The present Queen Empress is the most economical housekeeper Buckingham Palace has ever had. She has cut the twelve-course Royal dinners which were standard before the War down to five courses. When that august Court functionary Sir Derek Keppel at first protested, Her Majesty said lightly but inflexibly...
Compared to Mary's the moral standards of Alexandra seem, almost lax. Clemenceau has said: "Edward VII . . . one day . . . invited me to a party where there were twelve women, every one of whom had been his mistress. . . . Nevertheless his wife . . . had great veneration for, him." The present Queen Empress is both a good woman and an indomitable influence for good. Last week the wives of the Delegates to the London Naval Parley twittered and chatted about her, then chatted and twittered all over again, comparing notes. For they had just had dishes of tea at the "home" of Her Majesty...
...Three: after the ladies had had their tea Queen Mary said a few last gracious words, then surprised her guests by walking straight at a wall consisting of a huge mirror in front of which stood a half table. Just when it seemed that the 62-year-old Queen Empress' eyesight must be failing, that she had mistaken the mirror for a passage, the whole contraption suddenly revolved, mirrored wall and table turning upon noiseless hinges, and Mary vanished into wonderland...
This disappearance is merely Queen Mary's way of retiring to her boudoir. To be put through by telephone to the Queen Empress' boudoir one must give first a private number to the central operator, such as "K. Rose." If one does know the number and combination, one is put through instantly. Thus it happened, in the Pankhurst days of violent "Suffragets " that Queen Mary received the terrible shock of answering her boudoir telephone and having rudely shouted at her: "Are you for votes for women?" The Suffragets had wormed the secret code out of Miss Constance Selby, the Queen...
March 6-Twenty-seventh birthday of Empress Nagako of Japan...