ROYAL HOME DISPERSED
The Royal Pavilion ai Aldershot has lost a good deal of furniture recently, comments tho London ‘Daily Telegraph.’ Wardrobes and kitchen equipment have been transferred to homes taken over for evacuees. It was the Queen’s idea, of which the King at once approved enthusiastically. The building is in a military area, or it might have been placed as it, stands at the disposal of the billeting authorities. Dating hack to the early davs of Aldershot as garrison town, the Royal Pavilion was built hy the Prince Consort, for Queen Victoria. , The iprcent King, and .Queen haves
never lived there, hut King George V. and Queen Mary used it in the early years of their reign. The last occupants were the Duke and Duchess nf Gloucester, who moved from there to York House, S£«. James’s Palace^
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Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 18
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138ROYAL HOME DISPERSED Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 18
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