Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — The Queen’S Bonnet. [ARTICLE]

The Queen’S Bonnet.

The Duchess of Bedford recently told a girls’ needlework society in Mile End, England, that the bonnet which the Queen were at the jubilee service was practically made by the Princess of Wales. “It was sent home,” said the Duchess, “looking heavy and ugly. Nobody dared return it to the milliner without the Queen's orders, and nobody liked to ask her Majesty for such instructions. So the ladies in waiting showed it to the Princess of Wales, knowing ho w clever she is in all such matters, and her Royal Highnesss with her own hands altered it and twisted it till it became the extremely becoming and tasteful headdress which we all admired on that memorable occasion. Everybody who saw it thought that the Queen had never had a prettier bonnet, but how it came to be sc pretty is news of to-day.