A Royal Tribute
150 NATIONS PAY COMPLIMENT TO AGED QUEEN-MOTHER OF HOLLAND
HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY
HUEEN 2MMA, mother of the reigning Queen of the Netherlands, who in the fifty years she has been resident in Holland ' has won all Dutch hearts was seventy years old on Thursday, August 2, and great preparations were made for the celebration of the occasion. One important feature was the
presentation of an album, signed by thousands of Dutch women of all ranks and conditions, each ot whom had t con tributed some thing, according to her means, to a fund which was placed at the dis posal o f t.h e
Queen-Mother. * Owing to the many national event bn the day itself, the following da' ; (Friday) was chosen for one of “horn., ' age” by foreign participants in th'-,;-Olympic Games. This took the fornj; ' of a grand march past of all the eir. ' 1 trants from other countries for the.; equestrian sports. They rode from llilvorsuin, where most of these sport / took place, to the Summer Palace nvy Sdesterdyk, where the Queen-Mothe is at present in residence. . • . More than 150 different countries were represented, many of the rider,,, being Army officers.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1928, Page 9
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