ROYAL PORTRAIT
KING'S GIFTS TO DOMINIONS [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 12. The Governor-General has received the following announcement from the Lord Chamberlain from Buckingham Palace: — “ In commemoration of their Majesties’ Coronation, the King has been pleased to approve that copies of the State portrait of His Majesty and Her Majesty should be placed in the Government Houses of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, India, Southern Rhodesia, Burma, and the colonial dependencies, and His Majesty’s embassies and legations abroad. As a large number of copies will be required to complete the scheme of distribution, some considerable time must necessarily elapse before His Majesty’s gracious intention can be carried into effect.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22955, 12 May 1938, Page 12
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113ROYAL PORTRAIT Evening Star, Issue 22955, 12 May 1938, Page 12
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