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"But what a change came over the Princess Royal then! Her face lit up like a young girl's at her first ball. With immense animation she began to discuss with me not only the Grand National but handicaps and selling plates of which I had never even heard. It seemed that she was passionately, wholeheartedly, and exclusively interested in horses. I will swear that before she left she had mentioned almost every winner of the Derby back to 1780, when the race began."
I love these kind of anecdotes! I just wish I could find more of them about her.
I believe it was Chips Channon, MP and London socialite, who wrote of Princess Mary in his famous diary "...has an easy sense-of-humor, but an otherwise colorless personality." I suspect he got the first part right, but may have overlooked the veneer one might expect to be found on a royal princess. I'm sure there was much more to her than what Chips could judge from his fleeting distance. [/quote]
At a cocktail party a guest was chatting to Princess Mary, sister of King George VI, wihtout being able to remember who she was. He ventured the question, 'What is your brother doing these days?' 'Oh,' the Princess replied, 'he' still king.'
