PRINCE GEORGE’S CONTRETEMPS
* FROCK COAT FORGOTTEN. London, April 25. An amusing contretemps occurred at Harwich, when Prince George, who was undertaking his first public duty, arrived to open the train ferry between Harwich and Zeebrugge. Ihe Mayoress -and municipal officers, in full uniform, were awaiting the train, but when it arrived the Prince failed to alight. Minutes passed, and.then it was rumoured that the Pruice a bag liad been packed without the frock-coat of the sub-lieutenant’s uniform, which he was to wear, and the Prince did not desire to greet the uniformed Mayoress in a mixture of mufti and uniform- An urgent message to the naval barracks finally resulted in a lieutenant’s frock-coat being sent, and the Prince put it on, regardless of the fact that his promotion to lieutenant had not been gazetted. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 183, 29 April 1924, Page 10
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