Dinner Guests Stood Chairs On Queen’s Crinoline Dress
(New Zealand Press Association)
DUNEDIN, March 19. How Lord Alexander and he prevented the Queen from rising from her chair at a small dinner party at Windsor Castle was related by the Governor General (Sir Willoughby Norrie) at a mayoral reception this evening. During his six weeks’ leave in England, said Sir Willoughby Norrie, the Queen was gracious enough to honour him—and NewZealand—by asking him to stay the night at Windsor Castle.
“There was a small dinner party, and Lord Alexander and I were seated on each side of the Queen,” he said. “Her Majesty was wearing one of those new crinoline dresses. Unfortunately, at the end of the dinner, both Lord Alexander and I put our chairs on the dress, so that the Queen was unable to rise.”
Nonetheless, said Sir Willoughby Norrie, the Queen thought it a very good joke, and laughed heartily.
The following morning, when he was having breakfast in his room, a knock came at the door. Prince Charles and Princess Anne walked in, and both seemed to have been well primed, for they asked him whether he had a kiwi in his bag.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28231, 20 March 1957, Page 12
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