ROYAL BANQUET

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 117, 14 November 1930, Page 13

ROYAL BANQUET

EMPIRE GUESTS

(From "Th«, Poit's" Repreientatlv*.) LONDON, 9th October. Outstanding in the memory of the Imperial Conference delegates will be the State banquet at Buckingham Palace. It was a scene of great splendour. The King and Queen received their guests, numbering 120, in ■ tho music room, and talked with each member of tho overseas delegations. In addition to Their Majesties, other members of tho Eoyal Family present were: , The Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, Princess Mary and her husband, tho Earl of Harewood, the Duke of Connaught, and Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught. The Queen was in a beautiful gown of sapphire blue and silver paillette. She wore a diamond-fringed, tiara, a diamond collar with a deep fringe of diamonds, and the Koh-i-noor diamond. Across her corsage was the blue ribbon of the Garter. Selections of music were played by the string band of the Eoyal Artillery during dinner, and afterwards the pipers of the- Scots Guards played. There were no speeches. In addition to the delegates and their wives there were present members of former British Cabinets and representatives of the Navy, Army, and Air Force. The company included the High Commissioner for New Zealand and Lady AVilford, tho Bight Hon. L. S. Amery and Mrs. Amery.