Royal Pageant

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 167, 16 July 1937, Page 11

Royal Pageant

PRINCESSES VIEW TROOPING THE COLOUR LONDON, July 19. On a brilliant sunny morning recently the King sat motionless for an hour on his charger watching tho Trooping the Colour on the official celebration of his birthday. The King was attended by his brothers, tho Dukes of Gloucester and Kent, and all three were in the uniform of tho Guards. They rode from Buckingham Palace through cheering crowds. Bejfore them rodo two divisions of Life-' guardsmen. Behind eamo Princo Arthur of Connaught, tho Earl of Harewood, I the Earl of Athlone, Honorary Indian A.D.C.’s in brilliant whito and gold-I-crowned blue, Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, and tho military attaches of foreign Powers. Thousands of surprised and delighted people cheered as tho Queen, Queen Mary, and the two Princesses unexpectedly drove in an open carriage from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade. Thero had been no announcement of the drive, and nobody knew thew were coming until the scar-let-coated coachman and groom were sighted in tho distance. Then cheers burst forth. Princess Elizabeth’s Bow The Queen, iu a beige coat, aud Queen Mary, in white, were seated side by side. Opposito to them were Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, dressed in fawn coats and ilowers- . trimmed straw hats. The carriage drove across the parado gtound and stopped under the Horse Guards’ Arch. There tho Royal party got oit and made their way to tho window above, from which they watched the cereI The sun shone brilliantly on the 1900 Guardsmen and tlieir officers drawn un on tho Horse Guards’ Parado in three sides* of a square. When the King 'reached, the Horse Guards* Arch he 'raised his white-gloved hand in salute to the Queen and Queen Mary. Princess Elizabeth, who had been watching J intently, thereupon bowed gravely to ; her father. Almost immediately she bowed a second time and a slight smiie could bo seen on the King’s lips as he wheeled his horse round to review the troops. An Enthusiastic Welcome. As Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose wero arriving for the ceremony a small boy, his eyes shining and his face flushed with excitement, leaned perilously over the wide stone eldgc of tho central window of the Horse Guards* Arch and waved to them. They did not see him. Queen Mary did, and a smile transformed her ■ features. She waved back. The small boy waved more frantically than ever. His mother’s hand darted out and clutched tho back of his coat, otherwise 'ho might have fallen right out of the window.

The boy, tho seven-year-old Master of Carnegie, is Queen Mary’s grandnephew, and is Princess Margaret Rose’s particular friend. A few minutes later the two Princesses joined Aim at the window. Princess Elizabeth gave him a dignified “Hello, Jimmy.” Princess Margaret Rose clutched his hand and stood beside him, smiling happily.