Royal Family Expected Home On May 11
LONDON, April 15. Their Majesties drove through tree-lined, gaily decorated streets to Government House, Bulawayo, where they attended a garden party, says Reuter’s correspondent, covering the Royal tour. . . . A three-year-old boy, Ronnie Mitchell, who became separated from his parents, made his way to the dais on the bandstand and climbed up, just before the Royal Family arrived, on the seat reserved for His Majesty. Police rushed up the stairs and escorted himxdown. The London correspondent ot the New Zealand Press Association reports that the Royal Family is expected to arrive in Portsmouth harbour aboard the Vanguard on the evening of Sunday, May 11. There will be a reception in the Portsmouth Guildhall next morning, when the .Royal party will go ashore. The party will arrive at Waterloo by ” special train at 12.30 p.m. on Monday, and will drive in a carriage procession by way of Westminster Bridge, Parliament Square, Whitehall, and the Mall to Buckingham Palace.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1947, Page 5
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