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Women in Uniform--the Women's Royal Naval Service

... anv/wr. m it'. JMIHK Women in Uniform the Women's Royal Naval Service Down at Devonport Wrens lead their hardworking lives under the eyes of a huge wooden queen the imposing ship's figurehead known as the Royal Adelaide. The ship from which ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 917 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: Queen Alexandra

... to Louisa of Schleswig Hol- stein-Glucksburg. Which per haps explains why Queen Victoria never really liked good Queen Louisa which otherwise was strange, because Queen Alexandra's mother must have been a delightful lady delight ful also as a companion ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2355 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

ROYAL, NAVAL, MILITARY AND SPORTING NEWS OF THE WEEK IN PICTURE FORM

... ROYAL, NAVAL, MILITARY AND SPORTING 1EWS OF THE WEEK IN PICTURE FORM. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF KENT took the salute at a Youth Week Parade at Leeds. The LORD MAYOR OF LEEDS (MISS J. B. KITSON) and the EARL OF HAREWOOD are with her on the steps. This smiling ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 399 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

QUEEN MARY IS EIGHTY: Facets of Her Remarkable Career of Service

... A wartime picture of Queen Mary, whose remarkable career of service to the Commonwealth has extended over very nearly fifty-five years, since her marriage in 1893 to the future King George V. QUEEN MARY AND THE LATE QUEEN ALEXANDRA The ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 697 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

SANDRINGHAM'S ROYAL CHURCH: Where Members of the Royal Family will Attend Divine Service on Christmas Day

... THE ROYAL PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, SANDRINGHAM, WHERE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY WILL ATTEND DIVINE SERVICE ON CHRISTMAS DAY The church contains numerous Royal memorials. The Duke of Clarence, eldest son of King Edward VII, died at Sandringham ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PRINCESSES AT THE BALL: The Queen at Queen's College

... Her Royal Highness about to enter the hostel in Marylebone Road accompanied by the Mayor and Mayoress of Marylebone. The building was formerly Queen Charlotte's Hospital Nurses' Home, and during the war was opened by the Church Army as a Services club ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 278 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

The QUEEN in the EAST END

... THE QUEEN LEAVES THE GEFFRYE MUSEUM after her visit to girls and boys from schools in Shoreditch and neighbouring districts For more than an hour and a halt the Queen walked round watching schoolchildren working in the rooms of the Geffrye Museum during ...

Published: Saturday 20 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 450 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ROYAL TOURNAMENT AT OLYMPIA: Motor-cycle Competes in Favour with Horse, and Service Women Enter the Arena

... massed bands are those of the Royal Naval School of Music, composed of Royal Marines, whose display includes the military ceremony of Beating the Retreat, and the Naval sunset ceremony ending with the sunset call. The Royal Navy field-gun ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 457 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

NAVAL and MERCHANT NAVAL OCCASIONS: And Other Home News in Pictures

... Burnett (left), who succeeded Admiral Sir Henry Pridham Wippell (right), seen together at the handing-over ceremony. Massed Royal Marine bands from H.M.S. Drake and Raleigh beat Retreat when Sir Henry's flag was hauled down THE NEW C.-IN-C. INSPECTS HIS ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 897 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs