Catherine, 109, tells Queen: Your birthday cards are all the same.. so look who she sent to say sorry; WILLS' SURPRISE VISIT STUNS GRAN.Byline: EUAN STRETCH HOW about this for a good Will gesture by the Queen... Prince William popped round to personally apologise to 109-year-old Catherine Masters after his gran sent her the same birthday card for the fifth year in a row. The pensioner PENSIONER. One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another. It is more usually applied to him who receives an annuity or pension from the government. had written to the Queen to complain that the monarch was wearing an identical yellow dress in each one of them. But she got the surprise of her life when Wills turned up at her nursing home just days after the letter was posted. He said sorry and promised to ask the monarch to change her outfit for the next card. Catherine said: "You should have seen the smile on my face when the handsome young prince walked in. "I told him I would like the Queen to have a new dress because the one she wears has been the same. "I think either a blue or white one would be nice. We talked about a lot of other things as well. "He asked me why I was still so fit at my age and I put it down to a daily tipple of gin until I was 80. "He told me he liked making shepherd's pie and said he used a masher to mash the potatoes, but I told him he was doing it wrong, he should use a fork to fluff them." Catherine then had a cup of tea, scones and eclairs with the prince at the Grange Care Centre, Stanford in the Vale Stanford in the Vale is a large village with approximately 2,000 residents situated in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. Until the administrative county boundary changes of 1974, the village was in Berkshire. , Oxon. The meeting was the brainchild of nursing home manager Wendy Mead who heard about Catherine's letter. She contacted Wantage MP Ed Vaizey and he set it all up. Wendy said: "We received a call and within five minutes, William arrived. "He stayed for about 40 minutes talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to Catherine. It was fabulous." Great-gran Catherine, originally from London, was born in 1899 when Queen Victoria was on the throne. She has been receiving birthday cards from Her Majesty since turning 100 and now been invited to a Buckingham Palace garden Buckingham Palace Garden or, to give it its full title, "The Garden at Buckingham Palace", is the garden situated at the rear of Buckingham Palace. It covers much of the area of the former "Goring Great Garden", named after Lord Goring, occupant of one of the earliest grand houses party in July. Voice of the Mirror: Page 10 .. IN 1899 January 1: Spanish rule is ended in Cuba. January 17: Al Capone born. June 27: The paperclip is patented by Norwegian inventor Johan Vaaler. August 13: Film-maker Alfred Hitchcock is born. October 11: The Second Boer War The Second Boer War (Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog) , commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War (outside of South Africa), the Anglo-Boer War erupts.. November 29: Barcelona football club is founded. December 31: Stonehenge large standing stone falls over - last time it occurred..I told him the Queen needs a new dress.. blue or white would be nice CENTENARIAN CATHERINE CAPTION(S): SAME AGAIN? With her identical birthday cards from Her Majesty Wills passes on Queen's apology to Catherine ONE TO ONE.. |
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