Three Kings and three Queens made a full house in Sandringham, Norfolk, last week when King Haakon & Queen Maud of Norway, King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark sat down to take pink milk with King George & Queen Mary of Britain.
The pink milk was a thoughtful gift from still another monarch, round King Fuad of Egypt. Ever since his illness, George of Britain has been peckish at his food. In recent weeks royal doctors have asked for special recipes and dishes to tempt the royal appetite. In Cairo, amiable King Fuad remembered that when he suffered from lassitude and loss of appetite, nothing was quite so good as a long cool glass of bright pink “preserved milk,” specially prepared by his Egyptian chef. Obligingly he sent a case to George V. Britain’s royal chef, M. Cedard, utilized the pink milk to make a pink milk pudding. All six of Their Majesties were said at Sandringham to have pronounced it “extraordinarily palatable.”
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