GIFT OF ROYAL BREW
SEXAGENARIAN TO KING LONDON. April 7 "Would you like this bottle of beer which your brother, when he was Prince of Wales, brewed in 1932 during a visit to the brewery where 1 work?" said a sexagenarian, Mr. John Layton, to the King, pointing to a bottle standing on his piano, when Their Majesties were inspecting a housing estate at Hackney. Mr. Layton added: "I kept it. as a keepsake." ;• The King replied irt the affirmative, adding: "It is too big to carry, rftbont, I will send for it. " An- equerry' Inter collected the bottle. *;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23320, 13 April 1939, Page 11
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