London, Oct. 28.
The good news that the Duke of Kent is to be next Governor-General of Australia cannot be altogether good news to those relatives and friends he and his popular Duchess must leave behind them in England next year. To the young, three or four years seems.an interminable length of time to be parted from loved ones, and so there must be sadness in the hearts of the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at the thought that they are to lose the companionship of an aunt and uncle who are so dear to them.
Will they not, too, be the least bit envious of their cousins, Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra, who are probably to accompany their parents on this exciting adventure to the other side of the world, while Elizabeth and Margaret, a few months before, will have had to watch their father and mother sail away on another exciting adventure, to Canada, without them?
What will the Duke's children think of their new home in Government House, Canberra? Alexandra, who is now just over two years old, is likely to take the change of home scene very much for granted. They generally do at that age. But Edward will be nearly four when he
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