ROYAL TOUR IN WALES
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 30. Their Majesties the King and Queen took Princess Elizabeth with them on a two days’ tour of south Wales. It was her first civil tour and her first real insight into the special duties of Royalty. The greatest crowds since the Coronation turned out at Newport, Monmouthshire, where the party started a 100 miles tour by car, visiting Cardiff, Merthyrtydfil, Barry, Port' Talbot, Neath, Tydach and Swansea, seeing docks, factories, and mining villages. The people hailed Princess Elizabeth as “Our Princess.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25328, 1 April 1944, Page 5
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