RUSH TO GREET KING
WOMEN HELD BACK DEPARTURE FOR BALMORAL (Received September 19, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, September 18. Londoners swept the barriers away when the King left for Balmoral to continue his holiday. Cheering women who ■ rushed the car in which his Majesty entered the station yard were held, back ■ only by the prodigious efforts of the police. The King* stepped from the car, smiled, and waved. The King's Scottish terrier had been placed in the luggage van, and. his Majesty ordered him to be brought into the saloon car ? . * A PRIVATE VISIT i (British Official Wireless.) (Received September* 19, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, September 18. ■ The King is being accompanied' to Balmoral by his brother, the Duke of York. The Duke, who is Colonel of the Srots Guards, travelled from Aberdeen last night to inspect the second battalion of that regiment before their departure for Palestine on Sunday. Although the King is treating „ his visit to Balmoral as private, the Court still being in half-mourning, .he will be re-Dived at Ballater station tomorrow, by a guard of honour of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and will be welcomed by the Marquess of Aberdeen, Lord-Lieutenant of ;' the county.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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197RUSH TO GREET KING Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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