Evening star., 1937-06-26

the promised bride OF the Duke Of
York. Now her story had to be told,
and 1t fascinated the reading public
all the more through being unfamiliar.
Had the duke fallen in love at first
sight? Yes-and no-for they are
said to have met at = party given by
Lady Leicester when he was 10 and
she S. 1t was l6 years before destiny
brought them together again.
Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite
Bowes-Lyon was born on August 4.
1900, in her fathers Hertfordshire
home, st. Paul's Waldenbury, where
the family spent the larger part Of the
year. BY contrast with ghost haunted
Glamis, this red brick English resi-
dence OF the Queen Anne period is
comparatively modern. It's setting is
the traditional loveliness of a great
English garden fringed with woods,
and there the duke Is said to have
proposed and been accepted on Sun
day, January IA. 1928 Popular opin-
ion leans to the belief that he made
up his mind more than year before,
when he was a guest at Glamis In
her centuries -old Scottish home, Lady
Elizabeth was acting as youthful
chatelaine for her mother. then re-
cuperating after serious illness
THE large family In which Lady
Elizabeth was reared was one of
the happiest, and In early childhood
she learned the invaluable lessons of
adjustment and tact From their
mother, the Countess Of Strathmore,
Lady Elizabeth and her younger
brother David received their first in
struction. Bible stories, music, dane
ing and drawing-the countess taught
them all equally well-and to her
three daughters she passed on her
talent for needlework One of the
modern treasures of Glamis is an en-
broidered bedSpread, copy of that
under which the last Of the Royal
Stuarts slept. 1t is the work of the
Countess of Strathmores own hands,
and into the valance at the head she
has sewn the names of her 10
children.
Lady Elizabeth's brother David, Is
months her junior. was her playmate
till he went to school Then she
continued her education under gov
ernesses. An apt pupil, she has spoken
French f1uently since she was 10, and
at the age Of IA she passed the junior
Oxford examination. In the ordinary
course of events she would have
finished abroad-but war disrupted
all plans for the 'teen-ege members
Of that generation. On the 4th of
August. 1914, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-
Lyons birthday treat was visit to a
London theater with several members
of her family In addition to the play
she saw the start Of drama that was
to alter the face Of the world and its
way Of thinking. An audience almost
delirious celebrated Great BritAin's
declaration OF war.
During the next four years hers
WAS only minor role in the interna-
tional epic, but it prepared her in no
small degree for the principal part
that WAS thrust upon her as the re-
suit OF another amazing occurrence.
WHEN the Strathmore family has
tened north to GlamB in Au-
gust, 1914, it was to turn the ancient
stronghold into a modern hospital,
with Is beds in the dining room and
the crypt mess hall for convalescents
Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon. now the wife
Of the Hon. William Spencer Leve-
son Cover, r. NJ, went through a
special course of training in London
and came home to take efficient COM
mand Of the homelike esta blishment
at Glamis. Those who had the good
fortune to be invalided there found
| the environment ideal. The countess
personally welcomed every man. and
nothing was too good for her wounded
guests.
Although the teen age. Lady Eliz-
abeth was obliged to carry on with
her lessons, she still did her bit. She
| inherits her mothers musical ability
and one OF her happy tasks was to
| entertain the men in the afternoons
and evenings, when she sang to them
or played old favorites and popular
songs.