You look awfully like the Queen by Thomas Blaikie

You look awfully like the Queen by Thomas Blaikie

Author:Thomas Blaikie [Thomas Blaikie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007396221
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers


In Kenya, just before she became Queen, Princess Elizabeth was in a fix. Walking through the bush, her car half a mile away and the ladder to her tree house still fifty yards ahead, she found herself in dangerous proximity to a herd of furious elephants. But she forged on regardless.

Cynthia Gladwyn, ambassadress to Paris in the early 1950s, had taken a great deal of trouble to find young people, at the last minute, to amuse Princess Margaret during her stay at the embassy. But on the Sunday morning, Princess Margaret was laying claim to a cough, although, the ambassadress couldn’t help noticing, it did seem to be oddly intermittent. Nevertheless she couldn’t possibly go out and Cynthia Gladwyn was left to visit all the disappointed people without her. Imagine her astonishment, on her return, to find Princess Margaret equipped with a magnificent new coiffure. It was the ambassadress’s own maid who revealed the truth. The celebrated hairdresser, Alexandre, had visited the embassy while she was out. This had, in fact, been the plan all along. The next day, after enduring another evening of Princess Margaret’s on and off coughing, Cynthia Gladwyn couldn’t restrain herself from saying, ‘I do hope having your hair shampooed didn’t make your cough worse.’



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