All the monarchs of Europe have had a Christmas letter from the ex-
Queen who married an ex-policeman, states the "Daily Herald."
Dusky Machimba—she was once Machimba I of Moheli, French-owned island off the coast of Madagascar— wants. the Kings to help in getting her pension increased.
With the French ex-gendarme whom she married, Machimba lives on a tiny farm in the village of Dory, near Dijon.
Abandoning her lands and crown to the French administration, the ex-Queen received a pension of £40 a year. s Recently, because of the rising cost of living. this was increased to £70. But Machimba finds this still insufficient.
She appealed in vain to French President Lebrun. Now her circular has gone round the courts of Europe icfuding Britain's—appealing to "solidarity of all European mon-
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