PICTURESQUE CEREMONY
ROYALTY IN SCOTLAND QUEEN'S FIRST SPEECH (Reed July 9, noon.) LONDON, July 8. There was a picturesque and traditional ceremony at Holyrood House when the Laird of Craufurl?>nd, Mr. J. D. Houison-Crauford, presented the King with a basin of "fair water" as rent for lands granted to his ancestor by James V.
The Queen made her first public speech in acknowledging the conferment of an honorary doctorate of laws of Edinburgh University.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19372, 9 July 1937, Page 5
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