CHILD'S DEATH
FALL DOWN LIFT SHAFT
LONDON, May 12.
While the Hon. Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell was- waiting -in the Abbey to bear the Princess Royal's coronet his four-year-old daughter Charmain was fatally injured through falling down a lift shaft in a house in Carlton Gardens, where she had been taken to see the procession. Her father was called out and arrived in time to see the child die in hospital in the presence of her mother and grandfather, Sir Harry Verney, a former secretary to Queen Mary. The Hon. Gustavus Hamilton-Russell is a nephew of the.Earl of Harewood, and his sister. carried the Princess Royal's train.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 10
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106CHILD'S DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 10
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