London, May 28.
The affection felt for Queen Mary was naturally intensified by her narrow escape in the motor accident, To be in a car that turns right over an ugly experience, even when one is not close on 72. On Queen Maty's and birthday, two days after the accident. so many flowers were sent her that Marlborough House looked like Chelsea Flower Show. Among them was a large unch of marigolds from California, sent by American fadmicers. which' crossed the AUlantic the Yankee Clipper, the American flying-boat, But what a small world Queen Mary came through her ae~ ident with the plucts which, as the bitterest Bolshevike would admit, never fails the Royal Family. She behaved with perfect composure at the time fof the crash, sent mosques next day to than: the parlourmald who had got her tea in the bonze in Wim-bredon Park Road where she waited for the relief ear, to the lorry driver to express sympathy trid a hope that George V came to the throne, he seemed in comparison with his gli tering father somewhat dull and com-lace. "He said of himself that he ally a very ordinary sort of Yet he became a wise King and the best loved we have ever had.
It would be no surprise if a like destiny awaits his son.
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