Foreign News: Elizabeths

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

To the Queen-Empress there have been born no children for 21 years.* Yet as Her Majesty re- tired at Buckingham Palace one evening last week, she was pleasantly conscious that a room adjoining her bedchamber sheltered an infant princess. Her Majesty and the rest of the royal family had partaken of an unusually frugal meal. No soup was served, and everything was cooked with as little grease as possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of...

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