This false impression vanished at the first touch of reality, like a veil F silk touched by a flame. Aloof-mess, stiffness, snobbishness were the last adjectives which could be applied to the two British sovereigns. The very exaggerations of some of the would-be smart and cynical writers stood Their Majesties in good stead as it turned ow, and helped rather than harmed them in the eyes of the American public, which believes in fair play as strongly as the English public.
This same supercilious state o? [mind bad led to a competely false personal picture of the King and Queen being created. The Queen was represented as dowdy and completely lacking in personality, liveliness or character the King as a shadowy;|figure, with no aptitude for his task, in speech and manner. For the first few days of the trip it was amusing to read between the lines of the American reports of the Canadian tour and sense the amazed surprise of the correspondents. The Queen's the Queen's style, the Queen's
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