CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Cher. Slow
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KENSINGTON PALACE
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 19
LONDON, W. 8.
1st/October, 1970
TXV 13/3931
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Mr. Marsh Hong Kury Dophy
2/10.
I have now been able to show your
letter of September 16th, about Hong Kong, to Princess Alexandra.
Her Royal Highness has asked me to let you know how very sorry she is to have to say X 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 visit 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 particular regret that she sends this reply. X
P
The problem is that, within the space of one year, Her Royal Highness will have been to New York and undertaken three more official visits abroad to the Argentine Republic next month, the possible one that you already know about for next April and to San Francisco in October 1971; taking into account her commitments in this country as well, the Princess feels that this is as much as she can manage and she does hope everyone concerned will understand her predicament. The possibility of combining a visit to Hong Kong with one of the others has of course been considered but unfortunately the time factor and other commitments make this impossible.
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