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Show WHEN ITALY'S KING AND QUEEN PLAY During their past summer vacation, vaca-tion, the king and queen of Italy were more in the public eye than. ever, owing ow-ing to the war. They are at present at their estate of San Rossore, near Pisa, whence they frequently go to visit hospitals to see wounded soldiers sol-diers from Africa, to review troops, and take part in other functions on which the heart of the nation is now concentrated. The royal yacht Yela Is In constant demand, and the king and queen generally gen-erally take their small family of four along, as they are all excellent sailors. Princess Yolanda, who is quite a photographer, has been devoting herself her-self principally to sea views. The privacy with which the king always moves gives rise to many piquant incidents. in-cidents. For a ruler who goes about in his own kingdom as much as Victor Vic-tor Emanual III does, he is not known to many officials. If; The Yela put In Spezia recently, -and was boarded by the harbor-master. Princess Yolanda was about to take a snapshot of him, when he exclaimed: "It is against the rules'; you cannot take photographs; you had better give me the machine." The princess,-too young to stand on her dignity, burst into tears and gave up the camera, when the king appeared on deck. Even then the official did not know with whom he had to do. and was about to speak, when one of the officers came forward and said: "His majesty." The man, who was speechless with embarrassment, embarrass-ment, was relieved by a laugh from the queen, who proposed that he should give Princess Yolanda back her camera and -.that he should stand up. &nd have his photograph taken. The princess later sent him a copy which did credit to her skill. . |