Queen Smiles At German Chant

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30760, 26 May 1965, Page 2

Queen Smiles At German Chant

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) STUTTGART (West Germany), May 25.

A quarter of a million Germans gave Queen Elizabeth the biggest welcome of the British Royal tour when she visited Stuttgart, the capital of Baden - Wuerttemberg, yesterday. People lined the streets and crowded the windows of office

buildings, to give the Queen an uproarious reception as she drove four miles through the town.

In a short speech, the Queen recalled that some of her ancestors came from the Swabian Hills, near Stuttgart, and that her grandmother, Queen Mary, “had many happy memories of her father’s relations here.” Children Sing

Children sang folk songs for the Queen when the train stopped at Ulm, 60 miles from Stuttgart, to open the welcome for Baden-Wuerttem-berg State. In Stuttgart the Queen rode 500 feet in an express lift up to the viewing platform of the State capital’s 700-foot television tower for a breathtaking view over South-west

Germany to the Swiss Alps. At the last moment gardeners sprayed a lawn beneath the tower with dye to make it freshly green. Located on a mountain-top, the tower is half the height of the Empire State Building and two-thirds that of the Eiffel Tower. Beneath it stretches this “city of roots and vineyards” in the narrow and winding Nackar river valley, which boasts more hills than Rome. Germans 10 and 20 deep filled the streets, along the route of the Royal motorcade.

The Queen was all smiles. Prince Philip laughed aloud as the huge crowds sent up the now-familiar chant, “Elizabeth, Elizabeth.” At the railway station,

meticulously cleaned for the Royal arrival, police fined smokers five marks (about 10s) for dropping cigarette ends. Dined with Sister The Royal couple drove to the Schloss Langenburg, home of Prince Philip’s sisster, Princess Maragrethe von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, before taking the overnight train to Cologne, where today she will inspect the twinspired cathedral which withstood some of the heaviest bombing of the Second World War.

From Cologne the tour takes her to Schloss Benrath, where she will lunch before going to Duesseldorf, capital of West Germany’s most industrial State, North Rhine Westphalia.