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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1980

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PRINCESS ALEXANDRA ARRIVES

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HRH PRINCESS ALEXANDRA AND HER HUSBAND THE HON ANGUS OGILVY ARRIVED THIS (TUESDAY) AFTERNOON ON THEIR SIXTH OFFICIAL VISIT TO HONG KONG.

THE BLUE AND WHITE RAF CHARTERED 707 ON WHICH THE ROYAL COUPLE WERE TRAVELLING TOUCHED DOWN AT HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT PRECISELY 4.26 PM, FOUR MINUTES AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, DRESSED AGAINST THE COLD IN A VIVID NARROW CUT BLUE WOOLLEN OVERCOAT, BROWN FUR HAT AND BROWN BOOTS, STEPPED OUT OF THE AIR BRIDGE INTO THE AIRPORT'S TERMINAL BUILDING TO A WARM WELCOME BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, AND LADY MACLEHOSE.

SIR MURRAY THEN PRESENTED TO THE PRINCESS HIS AIDE-DE-CAMP MR ANGUS STEVENSON-HAMILTON, THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE, MR JUSTICE A. A. HUGGINS, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR JACK CATER, AND LADY CATER, THE COMMANDER BRITISH FORCES, MAJ GEN SIR ROY REDGRAVE AND LÁDY REDGRAVE, THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, SIR YUET-KEUNG KAN, THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR OSWALD CHEUNG, AND MRS CHEUNG, AND THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR ROY HENRY.

DESPITE THE EIGHT DEGREE WEATHER AND THE LONG 12 300-KILOMETRE JOURNEY FROM LONDON, PRINCESS ALEXANDRA LOOKED RADIANT AND REFRESHED AS SHE CHATTED WITH THE WELCOMING PARTY.

THE ROYAL COUPLE SMILED TO THE 40 PRESSMEN COVERING THE IR ARRIVAL BEFORE PROCEEDING TO A WAITING ROLLS ROYCE LIMOUSINE FOR THE TRIP TO FANLING LODGE WHERE THEY WILL REST BEFORE STARTING A BUSY SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS ON THURSDAY.

INCLUDED IN THE PRINCESS'S ENTOURAGE WERE HER LADY-IN-WAITING, LADY MARY FITZALAN-HOWARD, AS WELL AS HRH'S SECRETARY AND HAIRDRESSER.

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA'S FIRST PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ON THURSDAY WILL BE THE OPENING OF TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL WHERE SHE WILL ALSO DOT THE EYES OF A LION AND A UNICORN AND WATCH A DANCE BY YOUNGSTERS OF TSUEN WAN.

THE HIGHLIGHT OF HER NINE-DAY VISIT WILL BE AT CHATER STATION WHERE THE PRINCESS WILL UNVEIL A PLAQUE NEXT TUESDAY (FEBRUARY 12) TO MARK THE COMPLETION OF THE MODIFIED INITIAL SYSTEM OF THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY - HONG KONG'S LARGEST PUBLIC TRANSPORT PROJECT.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE OPENING CEREMONY. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS WILL MEET COMMUNITY MEMBERS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AT A RECEPTION

IN THE CHATER STATION LOBBY.

DURING HER STAY IN HONG KONG, PRINCESS ALEXANDRA WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY OF SEE ING VARIOUS NEW DEVELOPMENTS AT FIRST HAND. HER PROGRAMME INCLUDES VISITS TO PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL, THE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE AT KAI TAK AND THE HIGH ISLAND RESERVOIR WHERE SHE WILL START A PUMP TO DRAW WATER FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM THE $1 348 MILLION WATER SCHEME.

THE ROYAL COUPLE WILL ALSO VISIT CHEUNG CHAU AND TAI O BEFORE LEAVING ON FEBRUARY 13.

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