ROYAL TOUR
Home Fleet ' TO MEET LINER. RUGBY, June 19. Warships of the Home Fleet are assembling at Portsmouth, and will sail out to meet the “Empress of Britain” with Their Majesties aboard, as she nears England. With aeroplanes and flying-boats overhead, they will escort the liner down the Channel to Southampton. Official welcomes will take place both in Southampton and London on Thursday, but there are signs that the most magnificent feature of the reception will be a great demonstration on the part of the public. A big London welcome is being prepared for Their Majesties. Mr Chamberlain, members of the Cabinet and Diplomatic Corps, and representatives of the Dominions, will meet Their Majesties at Waterloo Station. The streets are being decorated. The Queen conversed for ten minutes from the ship’s telephone, with the Princesses at Buckingham Palace.
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Grey River Argus, 22 June 1939, Page 8
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