PRINCESS PLEASED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20783, 19 July 1937, Page 10

PRINCESS PLEASED

ROYAL VISIT TO OLYMPIA So thoroughly did Princess Margaret enjoy herself, with her sister, Princess Elizabeth, and the King and Queen at the first performance of the Royal Tournament at Olympia, that she was reluctant to leave the Royal box at the conclusion, and only did so after a sisterly reminder from Princess Elizabeth. The little Princesses had sat enthralled for most of the performance, and they had clapped gleefully at the antics of the comic horse of pantomine versatility; they were specially

delighted with the “wooden soldiers”— boys of the Duke of York’s School—and both showed immediate concern when a motor-cyclist, during a display by the City of London Signals, was thrown from his machine. When it was time to go Princess Margaret stood with her hands on the edge of the Royal box, gazing down into the arena, although the King and already left and the Queen was near the door. Eventually Princess Elizabeth, who had already put on her gloves find gathered up her sister’s programme, approached her, tapped her on the shoulder and led her away.

Huge crowds greeted the Royal party on their arrival. The King wore the uniform of a marshal of the Royal Air Force, and the Queen was in white. It was during the display of vaulting and trick riding by “C” battery of Royal Horse Artillery that the “human horse” appeared. Two men who constituted the animal performed all manner of tricks, the King and Queen and other members of the Royal party laughing heartily. As the “horse” was about to leave it blew smoke from its nostrils, and bowed three times in the direction of the Royal box.