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Reference Documents.

Publications.

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THE ACTUAL STATE VISIT

We have a number of reference pamphlets and papers, also a complete set of Royal Biographies, relating to The Queen and Royal Family and Britains system of

A list is attached. If you could use government and social and other services. these, please specify quantities.

For general information about Britain COI produces an Information Pack consisting of a number of leaflets in an envelope: this is an inexpensive way of reaching

Please state numbers. a wide readership (eg. schools). Could you use these?

Could you There is also a book THE BRITISH MO NARCHY TODAY by Christopher Hibbert. use this? There is no problem if the Pack and the Book are to be supplied in English, but vernacular versions may pose problems (and may well be better trans- lated and printed locally).

Here again there are a number of items which may be useful:

Bulletin Headings.Posts generally like to have a special bulletin heading for all press etc releases in connection with a Royal Visit. COI can produce either the printed bulletinheads

(in which case please state quantities required) or the necessary artwork for local printing. In either case COI would like a briefing on wording, colour and layout: are any colours particularly "taboo" ?

Press Kits.

Flags

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National Anthem.

Exhibits.

COI can provide plastic press kit wallets overprinted with the Royal Coat of Arms with a special caption. Would you need these? If so, how many? And what caption? It is often cheaper to have these produced locally.

These again are

Some posts ask for paper Union Flags for children lining the route. generally cheaper locally produced (air freight to, say, the Far East of Latin America is prohibitively expensive). Could you please advise?

Do you require the conductor's score and parts (brass band) of this? COI advise the official Kneller Hall version.

Is there any organisation (eg British Council, Anglo-XXXXX Chamber of Commerce) which might be intested in mounting a modest display about Britain and the Monarchy? CDI would be interested to hear.

FOLLOW-UP

as, indeed, FCO/COI would be interested to receive as many Press cuttings as possible after the Visit would Buckingham Palace. Usage reports about material placed in other media would also be of interest.

Co-ordination Unit

Office of the Controller (Overseas) Central Office of Information, London.

28 October 1974

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