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What may perhaps be termed without disrespect the outlying members of the Royal Family are not quite as well known to the general public as some of them deserve to be. Take, for example, Princess Marie Louise, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, born in the year 1866. On Monday evening the Princess 'presided at the Save the Children Fund dinner at the Dorchester. On such an occasion nothing more is expected of a lady of her years and station than that she should discharge the essential formalities. But Princess Louise had no idea of being content with that. She made—without notes and at her own instance—a speech rated as the speech of the evening, even though the Prime Minister was among others on the list. It was a speech, moreover, which did precisely what it was meant to do—draw cheque-books out of side-pockets and pens to give the cheques their value One man who had written his before the Princess spoke tore it up when he had heard her and wrote double. The debt of thousands of children to a lady they will never have heard of wall go unacknowledged, but it should not go unmentioned.
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