Tuesday April 29, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Queen Mother: winsome smile.

Dad went home via Guiseley. Poor man. We took Samuel to see Dr Smith re his tongue. He seems to have trouble with it these days and that tiny strand of gristle annoys him. The doc says no treatment is required unless he begins to talk peculiarly, and in Leeds the snip is rarely carried out. It is a family thing. The midwife snipped my tongue with a pair of kitchen scissors. That was 31 years ago. It is Jill's birthday but we couldn't post a card because of some tiresome postal dispute. Next year perhaps. The Duchess of Windsor was planted at Frogmore this afternoon. The Queen Mother couldn't contain that lovely winsome smile as she stood on the steps of St George's Chapel. She cannot forgive Wallis Simpson. But if you ask me old Wallis did us a great favour taking away that silly man. George VI made a much better King.

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