El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-12
BRITISH ROYAL
FAMILY T0SPENl
QUIET SUMNER
No Courts to Be Held; Only
Semblance of Gayety to Be
Two Garden Parties.
DOWAGER QUEEN TO
VISIT IN NORWAY
By HERBERT TElIrLE.

2 ondon. Eng, June Iz-Naturally
the royal family is going to spend
the summer in the most quiet
manner. No courts are to be held, but
there will be a couple Of garden parties
at Buckingham Palace, one this month
and another in July. These are not
TO be Of the usual kind, however, for
the guests to be invited are to be prin-
cipally wounded officers and Red Cross
workers.
Dowager Queen Alexandra, too in
tends to have garden parties at Marl-
borough House for Red Cross nurses
and these viii be entertained by the
queens niece. Princess Margaret Of
Denmark, herself a hard working
nurse in q military hospital north OF
London The young princess is very
eager TO be allowed to 20 to the front
and when the Danish ambulance corps,
headed by Prof. Tschierning Of Copen-
hagen, an old friend of her father,
Prince Naldemar, Of Denmark, passed
through London last month on their
way to the French front, the princess
begged the professor to take her along
but her father, who was asked by
cable, refused his consent
Princess Margaret, who is a graduate
Of the University Of Copenhagen, has
now taken up the study Of medicine
and declares that when she becomes
OF age, she viii go to Servia and work
among the poor people Of that country.
DOWnger Queen to Go TO Norway.
AS for Queen Alexandra it is almost
certain that she will go to Norway to
visit her daughter, Queen Maud, who
has been prevented by the war from
payiBS her usual visit to England. As
the queen OF a strictly neutral country
il would not be proper for Queen Maud
TO visit any Of the belligerent coun-
tries even to see her mother, while the
war lasts. The Norwegian royal fam
ily has a lovely but most unpretentiOus
SIN - Isl m n
the west coast Of Norway and Queen
Alexandra, who is longing very much
TO see her little grandson, Prince Olaf,
intends to spend some time here, be-
fore going 10 her beautiful Danish cCt-
tage Of "Hvidoere" to meet her sister,
the dOWaEer empress OF Russia
King George, however. is .endeaVOr-
ing to persuade his mother not TO leave
England in present circumstances.
when the Germans might be expected
to torpedo the royal yacht, but Queen
Alexandra, who is a very good sailor.
declares that she fears German sub
marines as little as she fears a Zeppe-
lin attack at Marlborough House.
She VIII. probably travel incOgnitO as
an ordinary passenger on one OF the
Norwegian OF Danish steamers running
regularly between England and the
Scandinavian countries. That the jour-
ney is not without danger aside from
German submarines attacks is evident
from the fact that on almost every
trip these boats encounter floating
mines in the North sea. which are ex-
plOded by rifle shots
BalmoaI Castle to be Hospital.
King George, I am told, has prac-
tically decided to turn Balmoral castle,
which is most beautifully situated
among the hills Of Scotland, into a
home for convalescent officers. The
air at Balmoral is wonderfully brac-
ing. and Queen Victoria. whose faTo-
rite residence the castle was, used to
say that every time she stayed there
it made her feel five years younger.
but neither King George nor Queen
Mary ever liked the place and il viii
probably never again be used as a
royal residence.