ROYALTY ACTIVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 14

ROYALTY ACTIVE

VISITS TO COUNTIES KING AND QUEEN IN YORKS (British Official rnrelew.t (Received October 20, 2.40 p.m.) RUGBY, October 19. Their Majesties, who are beginning a tour of Yorkshire, arrived at Hull where they received a great welcome. After lunching at the Guild Hall, they left for York, where they were met by the Princess Royal and Lord Harewood, who is Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding. A large crowd gave their Majesties an enthusiastic welcome after a visit to a factory where they saw different processes for the manufacture of chocolates. , Their Majesties had tea with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House and subsequently left for Harewood House, where they are staying tonight. Two other Royal visits began today. The streets of Devonport were lined with cheering people when the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester arrived after a tour of Cornwall and Devon in time for a luncheon at Admiralty House given by the Commander-in-Chief. Afterwards the Duchess launched the cruiser Gloucester (5300 tons). The Duchess will later open an extension to the maternity nurses' home. Tomorrow the Duke will lay the foundationstone of a library block at the University College, Exeter. The Duke and Duchess of Kent began a two days' tour of South Wales by visiting Carmarthen, the Duke laid the foundation-stone of extensions to Trinity College and the Duchess opened a new wing comprising the maternity and general wards at the county infirmary. They later reached Swansea, where the Duke was installed as a chancellor of the University of Wales. The Duke will proceed on Thursday to Blackpool where he will name a new motor-lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, of which he is president. DUCHESS OF WINDSOR GUEST OF ROYALTY (Received October 20, 1.40 p.m.') NUREMBERG, October 19. The Duke of Coburg, a grandson of Queen Victoria, gave a dinner to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It was the first occasion on which a relation of the Royal Family has' entertained the Duchess of Windsor.