Her majesty Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Queen over the British Commonwealth of Nations, bent her knees and lifted her feet in dashing oldtime dances at Balmoral, royal Scottish home.
It was at the gillies' (servants') ball given by the King and Queen to 300 tenants and employes on the royal estates in Scotland. Clasped by gardeners, game wardens, footmen, chefs, guests, Queen Mary reeled and pivoted in twelve of the 14 Highland flings, polkas and Circassian circles that were on the program.
Noted was her glee; but haughty aristocrats, perforce, put on a grin that hardly covered their disdain:...
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