Jast few years the King and Queen have sought to restore some thing of its old romance and glory Holyrood by removing there with the Court for a week or ten days when the London Season ig. over, Scottish folk are pleased about this, especially as the visit ig not merely break in. their North—toBalmoral—but is quite definitely the removal of the Court from the Palace in London to that Palace—so full of wonderful historic associations, of tragedy, but of much beauty—which is one of the loveliest of many glorious old buildings in Scotland's capital city.
From this" centre' their Majesties {ult many important. engagements, both in the city Itself and on. its Outskirts, the inspection of new housing estates being among the more important items of their' programme. For they are interested in housing In every part of the kingdom, and. the inquiries the Queen makes about cooking ranges, higher sinks, proper lighting, and indoor coal' bins" show that she has studied cottage life from. every angle since she began to interest herself in the conditions under which the workers, their wives, and their children live.
Neither the King nor the Queen is, averse to singling out people whom they feel they would like to meet, A. few years ago, when they were carrying out a big programme. of functions and every half-hour of their was carefully allotted, the Queen suddenly turned to a Little group of women sitting on a stand near her ward pause, for none of the: germen vas apparently. prepared with "an wer and all seemed. tongue-tied there much near your own districts?" the Queen then said with asmile, "Do you hear of hardship from: your husbands perhupe?™ The earnest tone' Convinced the women that here. was no mere per= funetory, polite inquiry, but a genuine desire for information: "And as her Majesty put more questions, she. was able to draw from the ie group a Hoty of the distress" that was. going fon in some' of the menner streets of the city-the drab, narrow thoroushs fares packed with tall, grey tenement buildings which Tay behind the wide, Mlag-bedecked roads, through. which the royal ents had been piloted
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