16 NOVEMBER 1951, Page 7

A story that reaches me from Washington provides one reason

for the intensity of enthusiasm Princess Elizabeth aroused during her short visit to that city. At the reception at the British Embassy, among the two thousand guests with whom the Princess tirelessly shook hands was a lady who was presented to her as Miss Seth Smith. "That name seems familiar to me," the Princess observed. The lady explained that she was the joint headmistress of a well-known school which had had the daughters of various British Ambassadors among its pupils. " Ah,' said the Princess, "I remember. You taught the daughter of my father's librarian at Windsor, Sir Owen Morshead. I have often heard about you." The little incident, I gather, was retailed widely, and with great appreciation, in Washington.