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queen so unquestionably
deserved’. She completed the
swim in six hours twenty
minutes, and it was only at
Kew Bridge, after eleven
miles, that she had paused to
take a cup of beef tea.
The swim was preparation
for an attempt on the
Channel, an ambition she had
stated in the press, which
would again have been
unheard of for a woman and
wasn’t attempted until nearly