... Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, and visit Loretto School, Musselburgh. Agriculture: The Royal Show opens at Bristol (to 4th). Dinner: Dominion Day dinner of the Canadian Women's Club, at the Savoy. Racing: Brighton, Wolverhampton. WEDNESDAY 2 JULY Royal Engagement: ...

... paper. The Canadian Women's Cluh: The Dowager Marchioness of Reading turned out to be the perfect guest speaker at the Dominion Day dinner at the Savoy (at which Countess Alexander of Tunis presided). Lady Reading had traversed Canada from coast to coast ...

... office was a bleak place in the neighbourhood of Victoria Street. Sir George Perley's one great moment of the year was on Dominion Day each July, when he gave a lavish reception at the Ritz. There was no Canada House, let alone a residence for a High Com ...

... duty. Prince Albert had just to learn how to make speeches. I heard him make one of his first big speeches at Canada's Dominion Day dinner in 1921. It was an experience as painful for his audience as it must have been for him. Yet he went through with ...

... Anthony Quayle). From here I went on to the Savoy in time to listen to the speeches made at the Canadian Women's Club Dominion Day dinner. Countess Alexander of Tunis, very good looking in a dark blue and white print, who is President of the club, was ...