NEW YORK CITY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13138, 12 September 1940, Page 7

NEW YORK CITY

TO LUXEMBURG’S ROYAL

FAMILY

Short on baggage but long on chocolate bars which iPriendh had stuffed in their pockets, six young Luxemburg Princes and Princesses have arrived in New York with their father, Prince Felix. Royal evacuees from their now German-held Grand Duchy, they arrived from Washington to visit at Long Island home of Joseph E. Davies, Former Ambassador to Belgium. Their baggage consisted, friends said, of two. or three light bags of necessities. Their royal regalia was simple. All wore grey. The four Princesses —Elizabeth, Marie Adelaide, Marie Gabrielle, and Alix—wore light grey flannel coats, cotton blouses, blue pleated skirts and berets and grey cotton hose. The Princes—Juan and Charles—wore grey jackets and shorts.

' Prince Felix announced through friends that his plans were only tentative.

“They are living from day to day,” explained William Hamilton, * Commisioner General of the Luxemburg pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, who accompanied the royal family from Washington. I . ■ Friends said they believed the family had come here with scant resources. When the Prince came here last summer to dedicate the Luxemburg pavilion, he presented a number of gifts to those who participate in his reception from diamond-crested stickpins for members of his police escort to much costlier gifts for dignitaries who welcomed him.

Prince Felix of Luxemburg and his six children ,who fled from their little Duchy last spring three hours before German troops crashed in, found refuge in the United States and a welcome at the White House.

They arrived at Annapolis, Md,, on thb United States cruiser Trenton, motored to the Capital, and were luncheon guests of President Roosevelt.

. The United States consistently has refused to recognize the conquest of nations ,by force, and the royal family was accorded full official honours, including a >2l-gun salute at Annapolis.

Before leaving there, the Prince Consort gave a public expression of thanks to the President and the United States for their “magnanimous hospitality.”