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ENCOUNTER Kensington Gardens, 1937 "What a beautiful child!" cried the lady' in the fur coat, as she peered into my brother's pram, where he lay plump and rosy. My mother, Australian and shy, doubtless said something polite and steered the pram towards the Pond. But not before a woman tapped her on the shoulder. "That was the Queen of Spain," she said, "Grand-daughter of Queen Victoria. What a thing to tell your little boy when he's old enough to understand." This short acquaintance with royalty entered our family history and so did poor Queen Ena, the exiled English princess caught up in all that foreign mess of anarchy and revolution. For years we took an ...