1939-05-09 — Page 15

NA MAIL, MAY 9, 1939

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As a boy, accom- er brother, he went in the Bacchante ra, Montevideo and d Hope, where the had an interview captive Zulu stralia; and to Fiji, a, with a week at hen on to the land and the Holy Land. ubsequent journeys le in the company resent Queen Mary. bured the Empire.

45,000 miles, which mile' trip across the continent to Van- bt entirely a luxury it was taken by the (as King George ped on the cowcat- tomotive raced and

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The King and Queen photographed at a London A.R.P. display re- cently. Their Majesties, in their visit to Canada and the United States, are continuing a tradition of their family.

le has been every- the Duchess of York left for a tour voyage down the Nile. Their last orld War prevented of Kenya Colony, Uganda and the night in camp will, no doubt, long ng much about Euro- Sudan. Some of the many admir- be remembered by the Duchess, for at first hand, but in ers of the Duchess would rather twice in a fierce gale her tent was lands of the far- have seen her off for a holdiay on blown over, and as the rain was Empire, and other the Riviera. But she smiled at falling in a deluge both she and her became familiar them with the smile that won the belongings were soaked... All the hearts of the people of Paris a way along the mighty river the honoured them .with year ago, and went off gaily to the wilds of Africa.

ceremonial dances and displays.

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There followed a period at home New Zealand, South beside him, sat on the front of the Africa, with all of engine, as his father had done in when Princess Elizabeth was born, timately acquainted Canada, and watched the antelopes and it was not until she was about so much as the few and gazelles, and the zebra which eight or nine months old that the in the United States. disported themselves beside the rail- Duke and Duchess undertook that much longer journey to Australia way line. duty of King George

and New Zealand.

Their course lay through the West Indies and the Panama Canal to Fiji.

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der brother was heir Crossing the northern portion of and engaged on his the Victoria Nyanza, that great to confine himself to inland sea, the Royal travellers went

In New Zealand the visit included home.

But his two on through Uganda, which only a

ceremonies, but the avy at Dartmouth, few years before had been a hot-bed many State lowed by 2 cruise of African'savagery. When Stanley Duchess found a little time to spend with Sergeant Bennett, whose ntic and a visit to traversed the country, seeking. the wakened in him the true source of the Nile, he carried family had lived on the Glamis es- travel. As with his his life in his hand, but Uganda was tate, her Scottish home, for nearly a century, and who was himself a he World War inter- safe enough for the Duchess even ved at the Battle of though she did have to sleep in mud soldier of the Black Watch when her brother, Captain Fergus Bowes- ore he found oppor- huts, foot it from camp to camp, and

Lyon, of that regiment, was fatally broad to the far dis- ward off swarms of mosquitoes.

wounded at the battle of Loos, he Empire.

It was a rest for the Duke and

Australia gave the Royal couple a 1924, the Duke of Duchess when they' were able to

very good time. The main object then) and board the steamer for a five weeks' of the journey was for the Duke to open the new buildings of the Com- monwealth Parliament at Canberra. That duty of a day fulfilled, the re- 'maining weeks of the visit were .spent on the southern continent in free association with all classes. At Bendigo the Duke, familiary known as. "Digger," accepted a specimen of gold-bearing quartz from a 'mine which had already yielded £80,000,000 worth of the precious metal; and at Ballarat, the scene of the great gold-rush of 1851, "Digger's" wife was presented with a napkin ring of Ballarat gold for the Princess Elizabeth.

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