CASUALTIES OF STRIKE
Garter Ceremony And Royal Ascot (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, June 11. The most modern of summer fashions and the most ancient robes of chivalry are casualties alike of the British rail strike. The Royal Ascot race meeting, where hats and dresses jostle with thoroughbreds for public attention, has been postponed and so has the Garter ceremony, a relic of age-old chivalry, in the Throne Room of Windsor Castle on Monday. New dates will be announced later for the four-day race programme, but the Garter ceremony is cancelled for this year. The Queen, as sovereign of the Ancient Order of the Garter, would have invested the new Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, ceremonially as a Knight Companion of the Order. The next day she was to have driven from Windsor to nearby Ascot for the Royal drive along the length of the course, a* traditional feature of this meeting at which members of the Royal Family are regular spectators.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27683, 13 June 1955, Page 11
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