Romances de Royal à-jour . p n'a jamais été parlé. L'œil attentif de près l'attitude du Roi peut-être dans une certaine mesure responsable de l'impressionwhich est assez général qu'Elena est un shywoman,timide. Il y a plusieurs anecdotes a rappelé toillustrate ce trait, chacun d'eux, pour moi, intéressant. Un après-midi, vers le début de son règne, Elena avait assisté à une fonction donnée par l'indice Dow-ager-reine. Reine Elena est arrivé un peu lateand ont atteint la porte du salon sans surveillance.Il y avait une grande entreprise présente et QueenElena est arrêtée, comme si dans l'embarras, jusqu'QueenMargherita, voyant sa came,

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Royal romances of to-day . p has ever been spoken. The closely watchful attitude of the King maybe in some measure responsible for the impressionwhich is pretty general that Elena is a timid, shywoman. There are several anecdotes recalled toillustrate this trait, each of them, to me, interesting. One afternoon, near the beginning of her reign, Elena had attended a function given by the Dow-ager-Queen. Queen Elena arrived somewhat lateand reached the door of the Salon unattended.There was a large company present and QueenElena paused, as if in embarrassment, until QueenMargherita, seeing her, came forward and takingher by the hand led her into the room. On the rare occasions when Italian Royalty pat-ronise the theatre or opera, Elena, if she knows theQueen-Mother is to be present, arrives a little late, and leaves a little early, so that the homage QueenMargherita had been accustomed to during somany years may still be hers. Social shyness is a thing apart from physicalcourage, of which, we all know Queen Elena has. Queen Elena of Italy 273 an abundance. The formalities of ceremonialcourt life are irksome to Queen Elena, and the aft-ernoon teas that she holds for the court arestripped of all their formidableness by the presentmistress of the Quirinal. Among the English colony in Rome is an agedlady whom Queen Elena calls to court once everyyear for a tete-a-tete. During the past year shehas grown very deaf. Queen Elena had obviousdifficulty in making herself understood, and to hervery evident embarrassment the old lady noticedthis and said, apologetically: I am so sorry, yourMajesty, that my hearing inconveniences you.Oh, said the Queen, I did not know that youwere deaf. Come, sit here on the sofa by me.This, surely, was worthy of a Queen. That Queen Elena positively dislikes social func-tions there can be no question. For three succes-sive winters there was practically nothing what-ever done to stimulate the social life of the capitalon the part of the sovereigns. One

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