ROYAL TOUR OF CANADA

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 2

ROYAL TOUR OF CANADA

Doctors’ Advice To Queen

(N.Z Prgss . Association—Copt/npht, (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 11

Canadian doctors have drawn up a series of suggestions for Buckingham Palace officials to pass on to the Queen to help her face the Canadian tour which she and the Duke of, Edinburgh will start next week says the ‘‘Daily Express.” The five main points are: • * Don’t eat heavily before a big hand-shaking reception. Fatigue from standing is worse than fatigue from extending the arm. Shake hands as quickly as possible Wear low heels. Drink a gla=s of champagne before receptions. It helps to reduce tension. Dr. John Khor, medical spokesman for the Royal tour committee, said hand-shaking is the most arduous part of a Royal tour and it is also a very complicated movement of the body “which we don’t know too much about. Our recommendations are based on several American scientific papers on the energy output of body movements. About the nearest comparison to hand-shaking is a housewife Washing dishes.” The “Daily Express’s” Ottawa correspondent says the longest reception line in the tour will be 100 people at Montreal compared with several 400-person line-ups when the Queen toured Canada as Princess Elizabeth in 1951. Most of the reception lines, however, will be of fewer than 50 people. The itinerary has been planned on the basis of six seconds a handshake and for the Queen to speak a few words to every sixth or seventh person.