KING AND QUEEN.
VISIT TO COVENT GARDEN. TO HEAR “ PRINCE IGOR ” (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 24. The King and Queen visited Covent Garden Opera House to-day, for the first time since their accession, to hear Borodin’s “ Prince Igor.” It was the first time a reigning King and Queen had been at Covent Garden for three years.
A MORE INTELLECTUAL COURT. GOOD MUSIC AND LITERATURE. POETS AT WINDSOR CASTLE. LONDON, June 25. Indications are that the King and Queen intend to give their Court a more serious and more intellectual tone. Recent guests at Windsor Castle included the Poet Laureate, John Masefield, and the poet, Osbert Sitwell. It Is recalled that knighthoods were conferred on the novelist Hugh Walpole, the artist Muirhead Bone, and the musician Arnold Bax among the Coronation honours. The King's tastes run to history, biography and political economy, and the Queen’s favourite authors include Hardy and Thackeray. Site favours composers like Chopin, Mozart, Brahms and Schubert, and does not Jazz.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 7
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163KING AND QUEEN. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 7
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