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Monday, October 16, 1972

The same year saw her first official overseas visit alone, undertaken

at the early age of 22, when she visited Australia to attend the Queensland

centenary celebrations and toured New South Wales and Victoria. The

following year she was the Queen's special representative at the Nigerian

independence celebrations. Since then Her Royal Highness has carried

out many overseas tours. On all her travels, she has won the hearts of

the peoples she has visited by her radiant personality, her gracious dignity on

formal occasions and her spontaneous and happy enjoyment of the hospitality

she has received.

Princess

On later occasions she has been accompanied by her husband.

Alexandra became engaged in November 1962 to the Hon. Angus Ogilvy, second

son of the Earl of Airlie; the wedding took place in Westminster Abbey on

24 April 1963. Their son James Ogilvy (James Robert Bruce) was born on

29 February 1964, and their daughter Marina (Marina Victoria Alexandra)

on 31 July 1966.

Her Royal Highness is associated as President or Patron with a

great number of organisations. Many of these are concerned with young people;

for instance, she is Patron of the Junior Red Cross in Britain, Canada ard

Australia (she is Vice-President of the British Red Cross Society) and of the

Twentieth-Century Group of the Royal Over-Seas League. Her early interest

in nursing continues in her appointments as Patron and Air Chief Commandant

of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service, as Patron of Queen

Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, and as President of the institution

which bears her own name, Alexandra Day

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founded by Queen Alexandra to raise

money for hospitals and similar purposes by the sale of roses. She is also

associated with work for the blind (President of the Royal Commonwealth

Society for the Blind and Patron of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association)

and with many other medical and welfare organisations.

The Princess