THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY
British Official Wireless,
RUGBY, May 26. Queen Mary celebrated her 62nd birthday at Windsor to-day. Thero was a family gathering for luncheon, and in the afternoon a picnic in the grounds of Frogmore, at which the King was present with other members of tho family. In replying to the Lord Mayor of London’s congratulations the Queen said: “I recall with heartfelt satisfaction the sympathy so warmly extended to myself and children during the King’s illness, From the Valley of the Shadow the King had been restored to his people with a realisation of the nation’s faith aud hope. I look back with gratitude to the fervent prayers and earnest good wishes supporting me and thoso dear to me in the dark days of our anxiety.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 7
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