There will be a picturesque scene on ihe Thames in July when ihe Queen travels by water to the Tower for garden party in the Tower grounds. At least one hopes it will be picturesque. When the King and Queen went down the Thames last year for some ceremony which I have forgotten. they travelled in a high-speed motor launch which with a little adaptation might have done for a torpedo-boat. The Kings bargeman were very indignant that they had not been allowed to bring out the old William-and-Mary royal barge and escort their Majesties themselves; and I think justly, although they would have rey had rowed that ma oaken vessel as far as London Bridge. Still, Royalty and the viver seems to need some dressing-up, or it becomes rather like Hamlet in weeds and a trilby.
Av one time a visit to the Tower by a Queen was apt to end unpleasantly, I don't know anything creepier than to be told, in. the church inside ihe Tower precincts, the number of Queens, other royalties and noblemen, all headless, who are buried under its floor. Queen Elizabeth, the first one, set a different
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