Evening star., 1941-02-13
Luxembourg Refugee
Ruler 10 Look on
Al Press Conference
Grand Duchess Charlotte
Visits Mount Vernon
With Mrs. Roosevelt

Grand Duchess Charlotte. refugee
ruler of Luxembourg, faced a
crowded entertainment schedule to-
day. beginning with Mrs. Roosevelts
press conference.
While she was expected to answer
no questions, the Grand Duchess
was to greet the woman reporters
as Crown Princess Juliana of the
Netherlands and the King and
Queen Of England have done before
her.
Also following the schedule of the
Netherlands Crown Princess, who
visited here last December, the
Grand Duchess was to call at the
headquarters of the American Red
Cross, there to receive flowers from
two Junior Red Cross youngsters
and to hear the United States Army
Band play the Luxembourg national
anthem.
Mrs. Davies to Be Hostess.
With her prince ConsOrt, Felix.
and her Oldest son, l9-year-old
Jean, Grand Duchess Charlotte was
to attend a luncheon given by Mr..
and Mrs Joseph E. Davies. The
former Ambassador to Belgium and
Minister to Luxembourg was host to
the Luxembourg couple and their
six children at his Long Island
estate last fall.
A musicale in the late afternoon
and dinner at the White House were
also on todayS schedule for the SOW
ereign of the tiny Western European
duchy.
At Mount Vernon yes terday Grand
Duchess Charlotte signed the guest
book and leafed back the pages to
find the names of her prince con-
sort and Oldest son who visited the
home of George Washington when
they came to this country in August,
1899, not as refugees but as mem
bers of the family then occupying
the throne of Luxembourg.
Prince Felix and Grand Duke
Jean did not accompany the Grand
Duchess to Mount Vernon. Instead,
they spent the afternoon on Capt.
tol Hill, where Chairman George
Of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and Chairman Bloom
of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee introduced them to commit
tee members.
Sight-seers Trail Party.
With Mrs. Roosevelt, the Minister
of Luxembourg and Nine. Hugues
LIE Calais and the Grand Duchess
lady-ln-waitlng, Nine. Joseph BeCh.
her highness visited the tombs of
George and Martha Washington
and strolled over the grounds. Be
hind her trailed a crowd of camera
swapping sight-Seers.
AT one point, the Grand Duchess
waited patiently for about five
minutes while Mrs. Roosevelt STOP
ped to chat with a sightseer who
had accosted her. c. C. Wall. super
lntendent of the mansion. filled the
minutes with an explanation of the
slave system.
Within the mansion, the Grand
Duchess protested in her soft con-
tralto at the waste of starting a
new page in the guest book when so
few names were on the last page
She signed where she was told. how
eVer-"Charlotte, Grand Duchess of
Luxembourg"
Smiles at Comment.
Mrs. Roosevelt, whose frequent
trips to Mount Vernon qualify her
as guide, led her into Nellie Custis'
bedroom. At the loW-sided baby's
crib, Mrs. Roosevelt commented that
she couldn't understand why the
babies didn't fall out.
Asked what she thought of the
new wallpaper in the Custis bed
room, Mrs. Roosevelt objected that
it "wiggled too much" The Grand
Duchess smiled.
In the outdoor kitchen, Mrs.
Horace Mann Towner, regent Of the
Mount Vernon Ladies Association.
started to show where the beaten
biscuits were made. 1t came out,
however, that the Grand Duchess
had never heard of beaten biscuits
Mrs. Roosevelt promptly promised to
serve them at the White House.
After the visit to Mount Vernon,
the royal visitors were honor guests
at large state dinner in the White
House, attended by the leaders of
Washington ofhcialdom With the
exception of the royal party and the
Minister of Luxembourg and his
wife, the guest list was all American