Show queen and parliament in ancient st hildas two to strange things about st kilda allda which has been abandoned by its inhabitants were that it had a queen and a parliament of its own the first queen of st SL klida was a woman oman from the mainland who went there as a domestic servant to the minister many years ago she was the only person on tile the island except the minister who could speak english and being a well educated and intelligent woman the st killans thought a areat u reat deal i of her bar partly in jest the they y gave herl a royal title and when she died trag i icalla in a boating accident the title passed to her daughter and then to the prettiest girl or woman on the island the parliament as it was called met every day in the open air to decide the work that was to be done whether fowling or work on the land sometimes disputes were settled by drawing lots hot but the bu business sines of the house was conducted in a friendly spirit |