ROYAL CRUISE
KING CHARTERS LUXURY YACHT. i HOLIDAY WITH SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS. (Received Thursday, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 29. The “Daily Mail" says it is reported that the King is considering a holiday cruise with a small circle of friends, possibly in Lady Yule’s quarter of a million sterling yacht Nahlin.
A FINE VESSEL. DESTINATION LIKELY TO BE KEPT SECRET. (Received Thursday, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 30. The captain of the Nahlin has been told that the King has chartered the yacht, which is lying at Southampton, newly painted in cream colour, with a Cambridge blue waterline. The King probably will go aboard on August 1 or 2. Lady Yule, believed to be the richest woman in Britain, removed her personal belongings yesterday. The Nahlin has a crew of fifty, but accommodates only eight guests. It is the biggest and most luxurious yacht afloat and has cruised from New Zealand and the South Seas to Alaska. The King’s destination is likely to be kept secret. AN ADRIATIC CRUISE. HIS MAJESTY’S PLANS. (Received This Day, 1.3 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. The Nahlin leaves Southampton tomorrow for Dalmatia, where the King and his party are travelling overland, possibly by air, to join the ship. The duration of the cruise will be three or four weeks, mainly along the Dalmatian coast.
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Wairarapa Age, 31 July 1936, Page 5
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