DUCHESS MOBBED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20272, 4 June 1929, Page 10

DUCHESS MOBBED.

CHILDREN'S GARDEN PARTY. CLIMB OVER GARDEN WALL. •' j LONDON, May 27. The Duchess of York was so tumuituJ ously received by 6500 Edinburgh school children whom she had invited to a garden party at Holyrood Palace that she was forced to run for safety. The Duchess gave explicit instructions that the children should have tho utmost freedom, and even bo permitted to do somersaults on the lawn if they wished. Thoir behaviour was at first most restrained, and tl.ey formed in sections !o receive refreshments yielding to the marshalling of a detachment of Edinburgh high constables, a picked body of business men assisting at such functions. When the Duke and Duchess of Yoik appeared the children abandoned themselves wholeheartedly to their hero worship, broke their ranks and dashed across the. lawn, chased bv their teachers and tho morning-coated high constables. The Duchess was immediately swallowed up in the huge crowd, and the ladies' suite was also lost. The court officials -worn frantic. The Duke and Duchess temporarily escaped by climbing the vvSll surrounding tho garden, but tho children jrashed on, sweeping away the .bund of the Scots Greys and tho kilted Cameron pipers. They clambered over the. rock garden in an effort to follow the ll 7u al P u * r > but officials finally forced a u- i trough the cheering mass, along • in- 10 }* ? Duchess ran, smiling and wavdoor at* ti 10 dived in tho palaco fscori. - • B oun S loyalists overcame tho . " . -if -I'.-.-. ■