KING OF THE BELGIANS
STATE VISIT TO ENGLAND ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Nov. 15. British destroyers and aeroplanes will meet the Belgian steamer Prince Albert, in which the King of the Belgians is crossing to England for his State visit, halfway across the Channel, and will escort it into Dover. The Duke of Gloucester will welcome King Leopold at Dover, and, in company" with the Belgian Ambassador, will travel with the special royal train to London. King George and members of the Royal Family, Lord Crewe as Lord Lieutenant of the County of London, Mr Chamberlain, Mr Eden, and Sir Samuel Hoare on behalf of the Government, Sir Robert Clive, British Ambassador at Brussels, the Lord Mayor of London, the chiefs of the defence forces, and others will welcome King Leopold at Victoria Station.
The two Kings will then drive by carriage to Buckingham Palace, and in the evening their Majesties will give a State banquet at the Palace. The State visit ends on Friday, and the programme engages the whole time of the visiting monarch. It will include an inspection at Colchester of the Fifth Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards on Thursday, when King Leopold's speech will be broadcast.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23351, 17 November 1937, Page 11
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