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DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret,
Secret.
Confidential. Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
CMG,
D. R. Holmes, ESQ., CBE, MC,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
HONG KONG
Type 1 +
From
E. 0. Laird
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
..In Confidence
(12)-(14)
27-
23
t
After your exchange of letters with Bill Gaminara
about Princess Alexandra's proposed visit to Hong Kong
an approach was made to Her Royal Highness proposing
a visit at one of the times you suggested or, if none
of those was convenient at an alternative time.
Her Royal Highness has let us know how very
sorry she is to have/to say that she does not at
present feel able to include a visit to Hong Kong in
her Programme for next year. The Princess realises
that the Royal Hong Kong Police Force are looking
forward to a fisit from her in her capacity as
Commandant-general, and also she would very much like
to have been able to undertake this visit before
Sir David Trench leaves Hong Kong, and so It is with
therefre
Unfitinalds The
particular regret that she sends this reply.
problem is that Her Royal Highness' commitments in
the United Kingdom and overseas in 1971 are such that
she is not able to manage a visit to Hong Kong. The
possibility of combining the visit to Hong Kong with
one of the other overseas visits has been considered by
Her Royal Highness, but unfortunately the time factor
makes this impossible.
This will, we know, come as a great disappoint-
ment to you all, particularly to Sir David and
Lady Trench, and we have been wondering whether you
would like us to be thinking about a Royal Visit
Confidential
/sometime
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