15 FEBRUARY 1952, Page 14

SIR,—Fifty-one years ago, within a week of the death of

Queen Victoria, an article in the Spectator ended with the words: " When she died there was not a subject within Britain or the white Colonies who could recollect without a sob in his throat that he would never again sing or hear ' God save the Queen' " I was a girl of twenty at the time, and can recall very clearly the impression of those momentous days. The remembrance of how the prayer was answered during that 60 years' reign is a hopeful thought to those of the older generation.—Yours