Nothing that the Queen or any other member of the Royal Family has done of Into has excited more sympathetic interest than the surprise visit which her Majesty paid to the Alexandra Trust restaurant in Old Street yesterday. 'The Alexandra Trust, it may be remembered, was established' by Sir. Thomas Lipton under the auspices of the Queen for the purpose of providing cheap, wholesome to the poor. The only restaurant that st has yet opened is, I believe, the one in Old Street; but that provides rome thousands of meals every day, including innumerable three-course dinners for fourprnce-halfpenny. When the Queen wa'ked up to the ticket office in this restaurant yesterday and planked down half-a-crown, demanding eight. fourpenpy-balfpenn: tickets, she was not immediately recogn sed; but itis coxy to imagine the excitement that spread when it was realised by the diners that their Sovereign's consort was among them. Her Majesty's little mistake in arithmetic seems rather to hare ivcre-sed her popularity. There was something so very human bout it. How could queen be expected to calculate readily in halfpennies? The girl cashier did not recognise ker exalted customer. and. as the Queen—if one may be permitted to is conducting the experiments.
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