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24 May 1901 — 3 Savile Row | |
Friday. 24th [May 1901]. Was ready to go with Blanche to Onslow Gardens in the morning but she called to say she wd fetch me to lunch with her instead. I sat & worked the sewing machine but she did not come & finally came a message from her to ask me to come alone which I did. Edward went off directly after lunch to accompany Constance down to Port Eliot where they sleep tonight to be ready for tomorrow’s funeral. I walked home. Blanche & her girl Irène came to tea with me & then took me for a drive & on the way home they left me at old Mr Burton (the Dr) & I sat with him awhile. He is terribly cut up at Charlie’s death having known him all his life & being devoted to the Eliot family– I then went home to dinner. Today I see in the papers the death of Nellie Hohenlohe from the result of an operation—the daughter of our good friend Count Hatzfeldt. When [we] were living at Madrid she was a child of 12 & we once took charge of her for a fortnight during her governess’ illness. Henry got very fond of her. She was not a pretty child but was original & talented. She danced like a fairy & was full of pretty tricks. One of her amusements consisted in eating a peppermint lozenge & then insisting on kissing Henry as he had declared he hated the smell of peppermint. One evening on our return from a dinner party we found her in our long drawing room with all our servants as audience dancing the shawl dance. She sang beautifully & married early but I am told grew inordinately stout. | |
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