Meanwhile the King and Queen have been doing all they can to make for their long absence across the Attantic, They paid a visit this week to the Royal treasures exhibition in their old home 145 Piccadilly (it_must be paying very well, any afternoon one may see a ong queue fof visitors outside the door) where the King was struck by the smallness of his old. study; they gave a ball for Prince Paul and Princess Olga of Sugoslavia, when large mirrors were lid up out of the floor to hide the windows, and the rooms glowed with myriads of pink roses, and dancing went on till long after sunrise (it sounds like something by Boccaccio) and one day the Queen drove down to Hampton Court Palace to a gar~ den party given by Toc It was a fine afternoon, for a wonder, and the lovely old palace and gardens looked their best, Many Queens have lived m Hampton Court, including most of Henry VIII's. There still a private chapel and gallery for the Queen But I beliova it is the frst time that our Queen has seen them, at least in a public visit. Hampton Court has not been a Royal residence since George It's reign
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