The Archive · 1939

God Save the King

A NUMBER of children were sketching in the Geffrye Museum, Kings-land Road, Shoreditch (London), recently, when a tall distinguished lady came along and stopped to chat to them. They did not recognise her as Queen Mary, and some of them bashfully called her "Miss"! The news that Her Majesty was in the district soon. got round and when she left the Museum a crowd had collected, A small girl pushed passed a policeman and presented Queen Mary with @ posy of flowers, but before anyone" could ask her name, she ran away.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account