Knighting in public
(N.Z PA -Reuter—Copyright) BRIDGETOWN (Barbados), February 19. The Queen, who flew to Bridgetown from Bermuda with two special items of luggage, a knighting stool and a sword, will publicly bestow a knighthood today on West Indies cricketer Gary Sobers. One of the Queen’s main engagements is the opening of a new Parliamentary session but cricket-mad Barbadians are chiefly looking forward to the knighting of the game’s 38-year-old all rounder. The investiture will be held on the Savannah, a racecourse amid the stone barracks of a former British garrison and a short distance from the cricketer’s boyhood home.
The dubbing of Sir Garfield Sobers, around 5 p.m. will precede a military parade and will be only the second that the Queen will have carried out in public. The first was when the round-the-world yachtsman, Francis Chichester, was knighted at Greenwich. London, in 1967.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33773, 20 February 1975, Page 15
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