HELENA

telling him that her husband was obliged to return to the Country on business, so that h has asked me to answer yr kind letter... and to send you our best thanks for yr invitation... to dine... which she accepts, she goes on to tell him that her daughter, Marie Louise & her Husband will be leaving us. She is to be married on the 6th July - and after a week spent at Cliveden, the young couple return to us for a week previous to leaving us. Your wife I am sure understands that we could not leave home before then... Do you think our eldest Daughter [Helena Victoria] might also have the pleasure of dining with you when we do?..., 4 sides 8vo., Buckingham Palace headed mourning paper, 2nd June