By Purse Dee. 16. full glare of publi-haps as well that the two birthdays each year, cial celebration and the private enjoyment. His birthday is, of course, in June, it is on December 15 that His est celebrates the actual anni-
Queen kept themselves favourite roles of Princesses who were giving a children's party. The Duke and Duchess if's little son and daughter wer the 150 Palace guests, not all "whom were children, der the Princesses had requested that this should: be a party for the King as well zs for themselves and thei o the Royal mother and father and the Princesses jointly welcomed the guests. Children and grown-ups played nursery games, ate nursery drank hot chocolate, lemonade orangeade, pulled crackers and youthful authority must have been delightfully It it was remem-it was probably when young guests noticed the obs the buffet of any kind of Christmas cake. The reason for this was that the Queen does not in allowing Christmas fare to sampled before the traditional Marionettes at the Palace One of. the Kings forty-third birthday party entertainments was a marionette show given by Waldo in the Throne Room of The amusing antics of these little doll actors are appreciated by the young and older alike, and,
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