Mr Muldoon—a knight in error
From
KEN COATES
in London New Zealand’s Prime Minister is certainly not a knight, nor is anyone anticipating the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Describing him as Sir Robert Muldoon was simply a mistake which will be corrected. This has been made clear by a representative of the publishers of the official Royal Wedding souvenir, the Royal Jubilee Trust, Miss Beth Barryton-Haynes. She emphatically denied that anyone connected with
the souvenir had inside knowledge, and Buckingham Palace, as always in such cases, had absolutely no comment to make.
Miss Barryton-Haynes said that 600,000” copies of the Royal Wedding souvenir had been published. The demand was enormous in Britain, with sellouts reported in several areas.
Plans are under way to publish in Canada and Australia, and the caption referring to New Zealand's Prime Minister will be corrected to read plain “Mr.”. ; /
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Press, 30 May 1981, Page 22
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