What New Year gifts are the fashion experts offering us? Let us lance hurriedly over some. of them, -de-jaying a really' close' examination of early 1990 styles until the failures have been sifted from the successes, That will be first of the Queen's ladies to be young, lovely and unmarried. Queen Mary' took the view that eMciency counted more than the usual qualification of being "a matron." How right she was, the new member of her household at once set about to prove.
Tt was Lady Katharine who. introduced the typewriter to the ladies in-waiting. Previously all the Queen's personal correspondence has been hand written. She had had a business training, knew shorthand and typewriting. Altogether she was such an excell-ut organizer that at Queen Mary's suggestion she was transferred to attendance on the new Queen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.