WELSH BARDS
PRINCESS ELIZABETH HONOUREDLONDON, Aug. 6. Robed in green, Princess Elizabeth to-day was admitted to the company of blue, green, and white robed Welsh bards in an ancient ceremony in a mountain glade in Glamorganshire. The bards gathered within a ring of stones, the Druids and wood musi-
cians wearing blue, poets white, and honorary bards green. For 40 minutes the bards carried out their ritual, including the Arch Druid’s call: “Truth against the world. Is it peace?” with the response from the bards and the thousands outside the circle, “Peace.” The Princess was permitted to enter the circle at the end of the ritual. No word of English was spoken throughout except when the Arch Druid, hearing the mighty shout, “Peace” commented in an aside: “They ought to hear that in Paris.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1946, Page 4
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