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Friday, October 29, 1971

"Yes, a little," the girl replied.

The 11-foot-by-22-foot room was crowded with pooled Press, radio and

TV in the background, yet Her Royal Highness did not mind this at all, and

surveyed the blue walls, the cement floor, a pair of double iron beds, a

balcony, and a cupboard with the utmost interest.

The whole room was spotlessly clean, and Mrs. Chan said she had

spent a whole morning brushing up.

"It is not every day that a Royal Princess drops out of the blue

to pay us a call," she cor nted. "My family and I will draw a ring around

corented.

this moment of time and treasure it always."

Memorable Visit

Mr. Chan, who pays $45 a month rent for the flat on the eighth

floor of Block 2 in the sṛaking new estate in Chai Wan, agreed that the visit

was memorable.

It was not that he would be able to say from now on that a Princess

had been to his home, but that his children had had special words with her.

The happiness would light up their lives for a long time, and this was his

chief joy.

The children said they had read about the Princess and the unattainable

Royal world in which she moved. But it was wonderful to see her at last in

their own home.

"I still cannot believe it is true," the elder daughter, Wai-ling,

exclaimed, when the Princess had left and the visit became a thing of which

memory is composed.

But the envious stares of neighbours gave her the best proof that

the impossible had indeed happened

that Princess Anne had indeed called.

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