PRINCESS ALICE
Brief Visit In April
(London Correspondent of "The Press”)
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, will visit New Zealand briefly in April while on her way to Australia to visit her daughter, who is the wife of Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith, the Governor of Queensland. The Princess, who will be 79 on February 25, will leave Britain by sea for Jamaica in January. It is expected
that she will arrive in Auckland during the first week in April and will spend two or three days there as a guest at Government House. Princess Alice is the daughter of the late Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert, first Duke of Albany, the fourth son of Queen Victoria. The Earl of Athlone died on January 16. 1957, Her daughter, with whom she will be staying in Brisbane, was, before her marriage, Lady May Helen Emma Cambridge. The earldom of Athlone became extinct on the death of the first earl in 1957.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29714, 6 January 1962, Page 2
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