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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1977

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA AND THE HON. ANGUS OGILVY

HERE ON AN EIGHT-DAY VISIT

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HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, AND THE HON. ANGUS OGILVY ARRIVED IN HONG KONG BY AIR THIS (WEDNESDAY) AFTERNOON FOR AN EIGHT-DAY VISIT.

THE PRINCESS AND MR. OGILVY WERE WELCOMED AT HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BY THE GOVERNOR AND LADY MACLEHOSE.

SIR MURRAY THEN PRESENTED TO THE PRINCESS HIS AIDE-DE-CAMP, MR. DENIS SHACKLETON THE COMMANDER BRITISH FORCES, LT. GENERAL SIR JOHN ARCHER AND LADY ARCHER THE CHIEF JUSTICE, THE HON. SIR GEOFFREY BRIGGS THE ACTING CHIEF SECRETARY,

THE HON. DENIS BRAY AND MRS. BRAY- THE HON. SIR YUET-KEUNG KAN, SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND LADY KAN= DR. THE HON. S.Y. CHUNG, SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND MRS. CHUNG- THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR. BRIAN SLEVIN AND MRS. SLEVIN.

FOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION, THE PRINCESS AND MR. OGILVY LEFT BY CAR FOR FANLING LODGE.

THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE PRINCESS TODAY AND TOMORROW. ON FRIDAY, HER ROYAL HIGHNESS WILL VISIT THE POLICE CADET SCHOOL IN FANLING AND THE LEK YUEN ESTATE IN SHA TIN.

THE PRINCESS WILL VISIT THE OCEAN PARK IN WONG CHUK HANG AND ATTEND THE FOLK FESTIVAL IN TSZ WAN SHAN ON SATURDAY.

ON SUNDAY, HER ROYAL HIGHNESS WILL ATTEND THE SILVER JUBILEE THANKS GIVING SERVICE AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL AND OPEN THE ARTS FESTIVAL AT CITY HALL WHERE A GALAXY OF ARTISTS WELL ACCLAIMED IN THEIR OWN FIELD OF PERFORMING ART WILL GIVE PERFORMANCES THROUGHOUT THE MONTH-LONG FESTIVAL.

THE PRINCESS'S OTHER PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS WILL INCLUDE VISITS TO THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC AND SAF KUNG OUTDOOR RECREATION CENTRE ON MONDAY, AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE UNIT IN HING WAH ESTATE AND THE CHA WAN COMMUNITY CENTRE ON TUESDAY.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS WILL BE MEETING MANY LEADERS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AT THE COMMUNITY RECEPTION AT CONVENTION CENTRE ON TUESDAY EVENING.

DURING HER STAY HERE THE PRINCESS WILL ALSO ATTEND ARTS FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES BY THE BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND BY MR. EMLYN WILLIAMS.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS WILL RETURN TO LONDON NEXT WEDNESDAY FOLLOWING A VISIT TO THE 1ST BATTAL ION, THE LIGHT INFANTRY AT STANLEY FORT.

KONG. 1961.

THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME THE PRINCESS IS VISITING HONG

THE PRINCESS WAS FIRST HERE ON AN OFFICIAL VISIT IN THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY SHORT INFORMAL VISITS IN 1965 AND 1967. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS AND MR. OGILVY RETURNED IN 1972 TO OPEN A BRITISH INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AND TO UNVEIL A PLAQUE TO MARK THE COMPLETION OF THE CROSS HARBOUR TUNNEL.

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