Royal Tour Begins
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LONDON, January 31
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh left by air today on the first leg of their tour of Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. The Queen and the Dnke left London at 10.13 a.m. G.M.T. aboard their special British Overseas Airways Boeing jet. The 4700-mile flight to Vancouver is expected to take jnst under 10 hours and after a 45minute refuelling stop, the plane will take off again on the 5900-mile flight to Fiji.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30045, 1 February 1963, Page 9
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