4 MAY 1901, Page 14

THE QUEEN'S FRIENDSHIPS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is it really true that the Queen bad no intimate friend- ships ? It is a hard thing to say of any man or woman, and we were told long ago that Lady Augusta Stanley wrote and received from the Queen a daily letter whenever they were absent from each other. The Dean used to declare himself much ill-used, and said he would have to take the place of guard on the line between Paddington and Windsor if he wished to see anything of his wife. These are, no doubt, "faint tidings of a gladder time," but not, I hope, untrue.—I