THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE
25, 1985.
Princess Ingrid reflects the seriousness of her rank in this picture with her husband, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, and her father, Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden. Below, she's shown in gay mood presiding over a booth at a charity bazaar.
Chelsea pensioners formed a guard of honour when the Prince of Wales visited the Royal hospital, Chelses, to preside at the 50th annual meeting of the National association for the employ. ment of regular sailors, soldiers and airmen. Here is the prince reviewing the ranks of the men s
they welcomed him,
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GLIMPSE OF QUEEN OF THE FUTURE LOVELY BRIDE OF PRINCE FREDERICK OF DENMARK
BY CONSTANCE DREXEL
Her Highness, Princess Ingrid, who recently married Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark, is more a queen than the fairy story type of princess.
I got an interesting close-up of the young woman when assigned to interview marriageable princesses. I naturally put Ingrid on my list, but when I got to Stock- holm, the Princess' father, Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, said she was too young to be interviewed, and besides, he did not like publicity. However, I was invited to attend the marriage of Princess Ingrid's cousin, Princess Astrid (now Queen of the Belgians), to the Crown Prince Leopold.
On that pccasion, the star, next to the tall, radiantly} happy bride, was the Princess Ingrid. She was Sweden's premier unmarried princess, there-, fore important, siner Scandinavian i princesses are much sought after for royal marriages.... in Europe..! There have been few of them in. this generation because the royal families of Denmark. Norway and Sweden have produced chiefly
Bona,
The fact that the daughter of Sweden's next king had us her partner u all the wedding festivi- ! ties the tall, handsome, blonde Crown Prince Olaf of Norway, gave rise to many significant glances. But fate decreed that nothing was to come of that. for not many months later, the an- nouncement of Olaf's engagement to Princess Merta.
sister uf Princess Astrid, was made.
DRESSES METICULOUSLY
In appearance, Princess Ingrid i is not what is thought of as thei Scandinavian type at all. Perhaps this is because along about 1810, i the reigning dynasty having run low, one of Napoleon's generals, Marshal Bernadotte, Prince of Ponto Corvo, was elected to the throne by act of the Swedish Par- lament. She is above medium height, her hair is brown and her kin la olive. She has large hazel yes and a rounded figure.
She takes great care always to resent an exquisite picture, chic and well-groomed. I have seen hor, looking on at tennis matcher at Wimbledon, at the theatre and t cinemas. She is always por- fectly dressed, perfectly coiffed and ather dignified, even distant.
Not for her are hoydenish ways
nd over-democratic demonstra-tirely by a high-born English lady lona. She is the queenly type. who has been her governess, com- no, evening, I remember, she panion and chaperon. vore severe white satin, diamond.
"Let 'em roar!" That was the defiance of the inventor, she sat in the cockpit of an aeroplane as it
was ant afre. He was testing a special asbestos suit for the Royal Aeronautical Society, London.
ANGLICAN CHURCH
SPLENDID BUILDING FOR KOWLOON TONG
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Plans are in the course of prepara- tion for new Kowloon Tang: Anglican Church to be erected on a site which has been levelled opposite ! the Kowloon Tong Garden City Chub!
in Waterloo Road.
The new church, which is to cast $50,000, will have a long wave and an artistic tower in front. There! will be seating accommodation for al congregation of 300.
The architects are Mesare, Leigh and Orange.
Site levelling has been almost com pleted. This is to be followed by the erection of a retaining wall and construction of the building will be conituenced in October. The work is. expected to be completed by October.; 1996.
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Major General R. leogayn, Military Attache to the Japanese Legation in China, paid an official call upon the Shanghai Municipal Council for the purpose of announcing his assumption of office recently. He was granted at the entrance to the Administration Building by a guard of honour mounted by the Russian Regiment, S.V.C., which he is asan inspecting in the above photograph.
SAMSHUI ENDANGERED BY DESTRUCTION OF DYKES
When the k St. Peter's Church! in West Point (which is now used KWANGTUNG FLOOD each winter as a street sleepers"! shelter)
vaented, Government offered several new sites and the Church authorities finally decided on the one in Waterloo Road. Govern. ment then wrote informing them that the $50,000 promised would be paid in instalments as the erection of the church proceeded.
as far as Chau Mah Ying, while downward trains also started from there in view of the threatening situation in upper-river.
Rivers Recede
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Canton, June 24.
An engineering party of the Board of River Conservancy with Owing to the sudden rise of the Mr. Fan Tsang-hon and others left West River most of the low-lying here for Samahui yesterday. districts in the Samshui are re- It WAS the
under Church authorities ported
water.
The
A later report says that Intention at first to erect half the Yungtsai and Tallong Dykes, two dyke at Yingchau has been swept building at a cost of $25,000, and aimportant dykes in Samshul, are away by the flood yesterday vicarage, but it WIN eventually in a very dangerous position. decided to ereet the church building
morning, Great perturbation has ini whole,
Mr. Lino Hock-chau, Magistrate Numerous sand bags
been caused among the residents. of Samshul has sent out orders to used to reinforce dangerous por are being For the levelling of the site and all villagers near the two dykestions of the dyke. The Board of erection of the retaining wall $7,000 to prepare for emergency. is being apent.
In an River Conservancy has been urgent telegram to the local As-quested to send officers to Shlu- The new building will combine sociation of the Sumshui Natives,hing to Inspect the modern and ancient architectural The Magistrate, requested them to Wah Kiu Yat Po.
situation. arrings and bracelets, nu ermine in line for the throne and married effective colour crete.
The Princess older brother, is out in concrete and the interior in them to Samshul for reinforcing features, the exterior, being carried purchase 50,000 sacks and ship ap and orchids, that suited her to the German Princess Sybille of eautifully. She looks particu- Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Her second
the dykes in case of emergency. rly well in the evening anyway, brother renounced his title and his
When completed the building should Mr. Lino Hock-chau has arrived
Canton, June 24. be a striking monument to the growth CLAUSO of a well-shaped, head rights to have a career in writing of Kowloon Tong district, which now here. He is to report to the received to-night from the various Reassuring reports have been hich she dresses with taste to and designing for the cinema and has a large Anglican community. ring out the exquisite lines.
Canton Government the serious-districts affected regarding the ness of the flood. It is also un-floods caused by the recent exces- derstood that Mr. Lim Yun-kal, the sive rains. wedish Swedish girls of all younger brothers are unmarried. everyone remember the popularity Canton Board of Conservancy to Rivers are all receding, saving
of. Moreover, Chairman
the Provincial alks of life go to school, and
Government has Instructed the The Enat, West and North ong with cultural studies, must being groomed for marriage into ward VII, became Queen Alexandra Shamshui immediately
Many believed that Ingrid was Princess who, as consort to Ed-end an arn to cook, keep house, take the English royal family. Though of England.
emorgoncy party for thousands of villages, for a fur- ra of babies, and run farms and the Prince of Wales never had
to in- ther rise would devastate'a con- untry estates. Princess Ingrid's bestowed anything but discreet
siderable area. other died when she was ten and cousinly attentions upon her, gos- been seen with the Duke of Kent Canton-Samshul Railway indicate ruined and many crops have been Then Ingrid, having quite often Further reports received by the Alroadly 100 vllinges have been a.girl has spent a large part of sin frequently linked his name to during visit to England, Was link that several sections of the river destroyed. ery year with her grandfather, here. Of course, from the racial, ed to him in rumours. Destiny, dyke at Kamchuk (near Ho Hau)
Duke of Connaught, either in political and religious points of however, had marked the stately have been awept away by ngland or on the Riviera. She view, she
Normal traffic on the Canton- s been brought up almost en-foreign princess left whom he grace it."
was about the only loss for a throne, and she will food and that the river, is still ton-Hankow Railway have been re- the Samshut section, and on the Can- rlaing. Train services can reach sumed.-Reuter.
In Stockholm, this Princess is talents similar to his, whom he
to marry a German girl with
It to be mere English than had
could
met in Berlin.
two
Her
havo
married.
vestigate the situation,
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