ROYAL TOUR
Sentimental Journey (N.Z. Preet Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, April 7. Prince Charles, accompanied by Princess Anne, set out on a sentimental journey today back to his old school at Timbertop. A crowd of about 300, mostly schoolchildren, bade farewell to the Royal couple at Essendon Airport, but a biting wind was whipping across the tarmac, and Prince Charles and Princess Anne lingered only a few moments before boarding a jungle green Caribou transport aircraft flown by a Royal Australian Air Force crew
Another R.A.A.F. flight took the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to the Victorian country centres of Swan Hill and Portland later today. The R.A.A.F. made only a few concessions to comfort their Royal passengers. An officer said: “They’ll be flying under the same battle conditions as our people in Vietnam. See that tin urn over there? We’ll be making them a cuppa with that, and they'll be having it out of plastic cups.
“But we have made a couple of concessions—two comfortable chairs in each plane, and steps, so that the Queen and Princess Anne won’t have any trouble gettingin and out of the plane.”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32266, 8 April 1970, Page 15
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