A ROYAL JOKE
SURPRISE SHOWER-BATH SPANISH PRINCE DRENCHED. LONDON, April 24. The Seville correspondent of the ‘ Weekly Dispatch ’ reports that an attendant at the Alcazar Palace, where the Prince of Wales and Prince George, the King of Sweden, and other European Royalties are visiting the King of Spain, showed King Gustav of Sweden —who is sixty-eight years of age—a hidden knob controlling one of the concealed fountains, for which the gardens are famed. His Majesty waited until the Royal party was innocently in the line of fire, and * then a number of powerful jets wero released. . All took it as a joke, including Prince Carlos, who was drenched.
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Evening Star, Issue 19552, 10 May 1927, Page 8
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108A ROYAL JOKE Evening Star, Issue 19552, 10 May 1927, Page 8
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