QUEEN LEAVES LONDON
WEEK’S RELAXATION AT BALMORAL (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, May 9. Queen Elizabeth left- London in a twin-engined Viking today for Scotland to relax for a week at Balmoral Castle before facing the strenuous programme of her Coronation. Nearly 2500 people gathered at London Airport to see the Queen, accompanied by her two pet Corgi dogs, leave for Dyce Airport Aberdeen. Prince Charles and Princess Anne are waiting for the Queen at Balmoral. The Duke of Edinburgh is expected to fly to Balmoral tomorrow.
ARTICLE ON THE CORONATION
Undertaking By Duke Of Windsor
(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, May 10. The Duke of Windsor will write “My Coronation Thoughts” for the "Sunday Express,” the newspaper announced today. The announcement quoted the Duke as saying: “I have undertaken to put down certain thoughts of mine evoked by the approaching Coronation of Queen Elizabeth n, my niece. “I agree to do so only because my years of service in furthering the interests of the British Empire would seem to qualify me to write on this subject more authoritatively than most.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27036, 11 May 1953, Page 9
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