GOING TO BALMORAL.
ROYALTY’S SUMMER HOLIDAY. SHOOTING AND FISHING. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 20. The King and Queen, accompanied by Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, will go to Balmoral on August 4 and will spend a six weeks’ summer holiday on Deeside. The Royal Family are following the precedent established by Queen Victoria, Edward Vll and George V, who all showed great affection for Balmoral and its surroundings. Queen Elizabeth shares tho King’s keenness for grouse shooting, for which the prospects on Deeside are very good. One hundred and fifty nurses from all parts of the world—delegates to the International Congress of Nurses at present meeting in London —were guests of the Queen at a garden party held in the grounds of Buckingham Palace this afternoon. The Queen, with Queen Mary, sat under tho famous Durbar tent .erected in the gardens in readiness for Thursday’s big palace garden party, and all the guests were presented to the two Queens. The King this afternoon drive from Buckingham Palace to the offices of the Duchy ot Cornwall in Buckingham Gate and presided over a meeting of the Duehy Council.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 9
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187GOING TO BALMORAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 9
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