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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1986

SIDE-PARTY JENNY MEETS THE DUKE *****

JENNY AND HER SIDE-PARTY, WHO WERE GIVEN THE ROYAL APPOINTMENT OF CLEANING AND PAINTING THE HULL OF HMY BRITANNIA DURING HER STAY IN HONG KONG, WERE HONOURED BY A MEETING WITH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH THIS MORNING AT HMS TAMAR.

JENNY NG MUK-KAM, WHO WAS AWARDED THE BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL IN 1980 FOR PROVIDING SIDE-PARTY SERVICE TO ROYAL NAVAL SHIPS SINCE 1928, AND TWO MEMBERS OF HER SIDE-PARTY WERE INVITED TO MEET HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS AT THE GANG PLANK OF THE ROYAL YACHT BEFORE HE MADE HIS HELICOPTER FLIGHT TO THE CASTLE PEAK POWER STATION COMPLEX.

THE MEETING WAS ARRANGED AFTER THE DUKE HAD EXPRESSED HIS WISH TO SEE JENNY, THE 69-YEAR-OLD LEADER OF THE SIDE-PARTY, WHOM HE FIRST MET IN 1945 WHEN HE WAS A FIRST LIEUTENANT ON BOARD A DESTROYER VISITING HONG KONG.

JENNY PRESENTED A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS WHO IN TURN EXPRESSED THANKS TO HER AND HER PARTY FOR PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE ROYAL YACHT,

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