Mr Evans
Mr Wilford
Private Secretary
Mr Daunt
A POSSIBLE VISIT TO CHINA BY HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS
ALEXANDRA
Problem
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The PUS asked us to look again at the dates for
Princess Alexandra's proposed visit to China after the
Secretary of State's return from Peking. We also need to
get in touch with Mr Angus Ogilvy to let him know how matters
stand.
Background
2.
The idea that he might take Princess Alexandra on a
private visit to Peking was put to Mr Ogilvy by the PUS in
September. After consulting the Princess Mr Ogilvy agreed,
and July 1973 was fixed as a provisional date. The Secretary
of State recommended to Her Majesty The Queen that during
his own visit to Peking he should sound out Chinese reactions
to such a proposal. This advice was accepted, but Sir
Martin Charteris asked that dates should not be mentioned as
The Queen thought that there should be no hurry for any member
of the Royal Family to visit China, and if, as seemed likely
at that time, the Prime Minister were to receive an invitation
to visit China himself in the autumn of 1973, it would be
more appropriate for the Princess to go there later.
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