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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1947.
MAGIC TOUCH OF FAIRY STORY Royal Couple Leave For Honeymoon Pelted With Rose
Petals
London, Nov, 20. Throwing dignity to the winds, King George, the Queen and Royal guests ran into the fore- court of Buckingham Palace this afternoon and pelted the newly married Princess Eliza- beth and Philip Mountbatten-the Duke of Edinburgh-as they sat in their open carriage in full view of 100,000 wildly cheering people. A few hours earlier, in ancient Westminster Abbey, the Archbishop of Canterbury had pronounced them "man and wife together" in the simple words of the Church of England ritual and laughing and happy, the young pair, covered in rose petals, set out on their honeymoon journey to Winchester and Rom- sey where they will stay at Broadlands, the mansion of the Duke's uncle, the Earl of Mountbatten, Governor-General of India. The King, in full naval uni-, clied that he danced and struck form but hatless, the Queen in his fut against the balcony her gold dress and the other wall. Princess Elizabeth took guests in all their finery, waved him by the hand and led him the young couple goodbye while back into the Palace. the dense crowdn, which ind Princess Elizabeth looked earlier broken through a police tired and a little pale but wash cardon to the very gutes of the still smiling when she arrived: Palace, made root for them to at the honeymoon home of puss through.
Broadlands tonight with her husband.
This was the climax to a day of pageantry and celebrations Buch na London han seldom
NOW.
When the Abbey ceremony ended there was a great move- ment of people towards the Palace, while another, smaller
Crowds who had spent the day reading and listening to ne- of the counts from London
Ab- ceremony in Westminster hey, brought ladders and kit- chen tables to the gates of the estate to get a good view of thrust towards the Royal Couple. Waterloo Railway station, the start of the honeymoon journey. A fog-grimed plane tree with
one
alrendy
Country Welcome
The newly-weda
drove
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The perimeter of Victoria black saloon car in which they Memurial Gardens outside had made the trip from Win- Buckingham Palace. As the chester after their 66-mile Royal wedding pageant passed train journey from London. into the heneath it today eight men sat They disappeared or stood on eight branches. zloom of the long drive lead-
Happy Unity
ing to the house,
Spectators who lined the route from
the Romsey to
estate gasped nearby country in admiration 1.3 Princess Elizabeth in her pale blue go- ing away outfit bent to acknow- ledge their cheera.
They were all strangers but they talked and discovered:
One was a Frenchman, one a South African, two were Aus- tralians, one a Canadian, onej an Irishman and two London-
cra.
Together they symbolised the friendly happy unity of the many different people who in London today had enjoyed the spectacle of the Royal Marri- age.
Beside her Prince Philip looked tired after an ardoua day but cheerfully waved and "miled to well-wishers.
In the great Georgian man- sion at Broadlands the Inst The Princess and her bus-touches had been given to the band were televised as they left Royal Suite. Flowers had been Buckingham Palace for their arranged in the lofty white-
walled rooms and the servontal noneymoon in the afternoon.
Princess Elizabeth hence had made a final tour of in-
forth will be known officially as spection through the long pas-
fler Royal Highness the Prince hung with paintings by
Cexa Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh.
With
Kroom
on
old maatera.
The house was taken Over the bride and bride-before the war as an annex to the Royal Hampshire Hospital their honeymoon Journey was their pet dog, and part of it is still used for a small Corgi, which jumped out of the that purpose. Only
section was retained by the Royal Car Immediately on ar- rival at Waterloo Station. It Earl and Countess Mountbat- This is the wing the was cornered by station atient. dants and was the first to board Royal Couple will use. the crested and decorated Royal Train which reached Winches- ter shortly before 1800 GMT.
Girls' Thrili
The newly-weds will spend The second part of their honey- moon at Birkhall House on the
Royal Estate at Deaside, Scot- land, where Princess Elizabeth "pent her autumn holidays as a
child.
than
More
20,000 people at Belfast saw Princess Margaret carry out her rat public engagement ten. accompanied by either the King, Queen, or Princess Elizabeth, She named the new Unka-Castle Liner, "Edinburgh Castle." At the same time she pulled a lever which sent the 28,500-ton weasel down the slipway. Photo shows Tom Smyth, aged, 17, shipyard apprentice, presenting a bouquet of roses (specially flown from South Africa' for the ceremony) to Princess Mar. garet, (APhoto).
Royal Wedding Incidents
London, Nov. 21. Here are some of the wedding incidents: A plane defied. the notice. to airmen, issued. by the Ministry of Civil Aviatior by flying_over Trafalgar Square during the ime of the Royal wedding. An official of 1e Air Ministry later said that the R.A.F. Central Flying Control is making enquiries.
the
More than 700 fainting peo The King emphasised that it plo in the crowds had received was the Princera' day by leav first aid before mid-day.
ing her to acknowledge The police estimate of pe crowds' greetings..
Fanfares by trumpeters from of the Royal Military School Music were the first to be heard in the Abbey at a Royal wed ding.
THEIR NEW TITLES
London, Nov. 20. The full title of the Dake of Edinburgh is "His Royni Highness, Prince Phillp, Duke of Edinburgh," it was officially stated tonight.
sign himself Edinburgh, and
us
British
Ho Philip, not will rank prince.
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It was also stated at Buckingham Palace tonight that Princess Elizabeth will henceforth be known offici- ally as Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh. Reuter.
Were
Guests at the Abbey -ushered to their seats by Army officers and boy scouts.
Speelal seats in the Abbey were given by the Princess, to her former governess and also to her maid and the mald's sister-Reuter,
Colonel's Murderers Wanted
Wonderful Day After bidding farewell to her daughter and son-in-law, who it was officially announced to night, will take the full title
Two Romacy girls who man-] "His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh," aged to get into the hall of the the Queen was heard to remark mansion, reported when they ple in Parliament Square and been instructed to inquire
came back through the gates the roads surrounding
to a friend: "It has been wonderful day. How
of
London, Nov, 20.
The British High Commission- ers in India and Pakistan have of Governments respective the their
con that they had failed to see the Abbey was 50,000. The crowds whether they
trace and punish the murderers of Lt.-Col. lucky we were not to have fog tle brown Corgi dog who had ing popular aire, the favourite: mont, and Mrs. Dykes on Oct. very Royal Couple but that the lit-spent hours of waiting by sing D. T. Dykes, of the Sikh Reef All who watched the wedding accompanied the newly-weds, being "All Nice Girls Love a 17 at St. Joseph's Convent, Bar- į used the same expressions to rushed out to greet them.
Sailor," Community singing was ramu'a, Kashmir, where describe the scene it had the
they magic touch of a fairy story.
Lieutenant Philip's naval cap led by Grade Fields from
a had been staying
Stating this In reply to a 'ques- There was the flushed excited was on a chair and there was Whitehall window. face of the young Princess in of lilies and roses on the table. Kensington Palace was a group Secretary of State for Cammen
a wonderful, basket of flowers Outside
tion in the House of Commons the back door
Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, to-day ber exquisite pearl-studded The butler accepted their mes of staff complete with brushes wealth Relations, added that he gown rising in the glass coach beside her father to the Ab-sage of greetings to the young and rods to wish the bride understood that the Indian mill- bey; the silver strident fanfara couple and then the girls were groom the traditional jaweepe' tary authorities in Kashmir were
ushered out---Router.
luck and shake hands with him. already, making inquiries to that
end.
He explained that Colonel and' Mrs. Dykes had been unable to leave Kashmir | a military con- voy carly in Oct:ber because; of Mra.. Dykes' confinement. Subse quent plans for their ovacuation ware frustrated hy 'tho rävið ad- vants of the·telbermen. -Router.
Commons Interest
Mosley
of trumpets heralding the bridal proczsalon up the nays, ita stone austerity throwing In-}~ to brilliant relief the costumes of assembled guests; and the: bolaterous good spirita of the young Duke when he nearly set out too soon for the ceremony. After the ceremony tho Princess asked the Dean of Westminster to place her bridal bouquet on the grave of Bri- Sir tain's Unknown Warrior of World War, I in Westminster Abbey.
Youngest Guest
The youngest guest in the Abbey, 12-year-old King Faisal
In
London; Nov. 20. Oswald Mosley's statement last week that he would consider shortly whether he would start a new political movement was brought up in the House of Commons today.
Reopening Of The Yangtze
:
Shanghai, Nov. 2L The Communist Member of Mills, auggested that the Mosley today, maumed demands that the The China Press, in an editorial Parliament, Mr. Philip Piratin, movement should be banned un-Yantze River be opened to for. asked the Home Secretary what der the Public Order Act be eiga shipping na representatives of Iraq, who has been attend- he intended to do to prevent à cause there WEL reasonable of Chinese shipping circles pro- Ing a school in Britain, was the revival of Mosley's Fuscles ground for believing that forge tested against a previous editorial contre of one of many little movement,
would be used or displayed in on the same lines and expressed 'hope that public opiclon
the future,
the
human, incidenta. While stand- Mr. Kenneth Younger, Under-promoting the political objects would exercise mire caution in ing outside the Abbey waiting Secretary for the Home Office of that organisation for the appearance of the Royal | replied, that the Home Secretary | Coaches, he excitedly stepped was keeping a close watch on Mr. Younger replied that the ping circida was that the reopen out from the crowd into the subversive movements of every Public Order Act conferred no Ing of the Yangtze would violate street. Little Faisal, in blus, kind and if it should prove that power to ban any organisation, Chinese sovereignty.
The ef argument of the ship-
was quickly beckoned back by the existing law was inadequate but if one was organised * and The China Press replied today the pollco...
to deal with any unconstitution trained ... of
organized `and that the reopening would bring When the newly-weds made al activities which represented a equipped so as to bring it "with-4 wn; freight rates through com- their appearance with their atoriaus, menace, he would not in the methods lined at", by petition would Improve economie fendants on the Palace balcony hesitate to ask Parliament to the Act, he had no doubt that conditions and would. Infringe before the wadding breakfast, arm him, with further powers. prosecution would be considered cream troops in China during the | Chinese sovereiwity no more than one" of " two young Princes| Later a Labour Member of by the Attorney-General-Rea-} war at the invitaŭmb of the Chin- who" noted sa pagen gút, so ex« Parliament, Mr. John Platte i Serpe
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