THE ROYAL BANQUET
GUESTS OF EMPIRE. AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. LONDON, Oct. 9. Outstanding in the memory of the Imperial Conference delegates will be the State banquet at Buckingham Palace. It was a scene of great splendour, writes a Lon-lon correspondent. The King and Queen received their guests — numbering 120 —in the music room, and talked with each member of the overseas delegations. In addition to their Majesties, other members of the Royal Family present were:—The Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, Princess Alary and her husband, the Earl of Harewood, tl;e Duke of Connaught, and Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught. The Queen was in a beautiful gown of sapphire blue and silver pailetU*. She wore a diamond-fringed collar with a deep fringe of diamonds, and the Koh-i-noor diamond. Across her corsage was the blue ribbon of the Garter.
Selections of music were played by the string band of the Royal Artillery during dinner and afterwards the pipers of the Scots Guards played. There were no speeches.
In addition to the delegates and their wives there wfe present members of former British Cabinets and representatives of the Navy, Army and Air Force. The company included the High Commissioner for New Zealand and Lady Wilford, the Rt. Hon. L. S. Amory and Airs Aniorv.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 425, 17 November 1930, Page 2
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