London, Sept. 22.
Yesterday, being al Windsor for the week-end, the Queen spent. a Ton, Hime visiting the shelters where numers of men and women from the Bast "End are housed. She talked with many women, " sympathize with them in their tnistortunes, she brought chocolate for the children, she "inspected ie cooking in the communal kitchens, she promised to see if she could "do something to supply perambulators, of which there {is @ shortage. (any appeal from Her Majesty for spare perambulators Would probably. bring enough with A week for every adult refugee as well as the children) and everywhere she conveyed that sense of warm human sympathy in which the Queen excelled by none. "God help the Nazis if they do anything to you and the King," eried one woman us she lett Although the King and Queen allow themselves the week-ends with their daughters, not for anything wilt they leave London. Every day they vi one or more of the stricken areas i the east, southeast or south. AS is well "known, these visits were the King's own' idea. These tours are entirely informal and one would add unprotected, If the notion of its being necessary to hedge their Majesties round with police were not laugh able. More than once, owing to main streets being roped off on account of time bombs, the Royal car has had to craw! through side streets with a jam of traMe, Added to the fact of the palace being thrice bombed, these tours have endeared the King and Queen to Londoners beyond anything that can be described.
"But itis strange to read of the King holding gri investiture In_a basement shelter' at Buckingham Palace, "Has anything to parallel It ever happened in royal history' before?
Withelmina is still pursued ress and as hart Queen Helen had tion as she drove fo the palace. She wore it rose beige summer dress and a lilac toque and is described as took: ing a Tillle tired but Fadl presence in the conch sith and his mother of the "Ruma dictator, General "Antoneseu, eri grey and struck a harsh hole, "But ras chidly respon-Hble for urging the Queen to return and take your Majesty's rightful place." one may hope that the harsh-hess was only superficial
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