26th March 1938

26th March 1938

Sarvar to 27 Queen Square

Dear Madeleine!

Thank you very much for your letter. As you see we are all back here in Sarvar. We left Munich on the 3rd, and Muck and I went to some friends for 3 days. We could not go to our aunt, as there seems to have been infant paralysis down there. Mami took Baby to Austria, where her engagement to Archduke Gottfried of Habsburg was announced. Now, what do you say on that? I knew about it since January, but of course was not allowed to talk about it. He is 36 and she nearly 18. They are going to be married on 3rd August. He is very tall and dark and very good-tempered. Rasso likes him so much and always calls him to play and talk to him. I am very happy about it, but the thought of one more of us leaving home is rather sad. Deidi is very well and I am looking forward to seeing her here for Baby’s wedding. Muck wants to go to England next week. She is going with our aunt whose two girls are at Roehampton in the Convent of the Sacred Heart. She will go to London on the 4th or 5th of April and then go on further to a place near Birmingham with a Roehampton girl. She wants to stay there for a month or two and then goes on to Barra Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She got these two invitations through Mother Burnett of Roehampton. We are all very excited about her

going there. But she has to be back in July, in time to help for Baby’s wedding. I have got mumps but not very strong. I caught it in Munich at a cocktail party. One of the boys had it and now more than 6 people who were at the party got it. We started tennis again as it is quite like in summer, so warm. The trees are green and birds singing. Even our stork came back already. Stork is a very big bird, white and black with a big nose, living on roofs of houses and eating frogs.

Much love Loll

If you want to write to Muck, just send the letter to Roehampton Convent of the Sacred Heart, London SW15