Another fugitive Royalty arrived here yesterday, the Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxemburg, with her husband, She lunched with the King and Queen and Queen Mary at Suckingham Palace today.
When the Germans invaded Luxemburg the Grand Duchess and her family slipped out just in time, She had been advised to follow the French Minister. Ho was held up and taken by the enemy, but the Grand Duchess's inconspicuous black car managed to yet past the Germans without being noticed, She went to France and thence, when Marshal Petain surrendered, to Portugal. Brom there she has flown to London. What she will do now has not yet been announced, but one imagines she will find England good enough spite of the German raiders.
"The Grand Duchess is a strikingly handsome woman, She succeeded to the throne of Luxemburg after the last war when the people of the tiny Duchy considered that her elder sister' Adelaide had been much too pro-German in the war, The sister retired into a convent and has since died. The Grand Duchess married a brother of the ex-Bmpress Zita and has five children. She and her hus band are ardently pro-British and ther eldest son, the Hereditary Grand Duke John, was educated at Ample~ forth, the Roman Catholic school in
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