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ROYAL OCCASIONS, WEDDINGS, ENGAGEMENT AGE STARS AND OTHER NOTABILITIES

... ROYAL OCCASIONS, WEDDINGS, ENGAGEMEN1 ^GE STARS AND OTHER NOTABILITIES. H.M. THE QUEEN travelled up the harbour in a motor-launch MANNED ENTIRELY BY WRENS when she and the King visited Plymouth. This was the first occasion tchen her Majesty's standard ...

Published: Wednesday 20 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 423 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

On and Off Duty: A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country; Royal Invalids

... Palace, the Queen has received a number of visitors, including the Colonel of one of her regiments, General Sir Charles Deedes, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, General Sir Alexander Hood, Director-General of the Army Medical Services, and Dame ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2259 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ROYAL PRESENTATION PARTY ON BUCKINGHAM PALACE LAWNS: A Brilliant Social Gathering on an Afternoon of Sunshine

... lace made their apt#' ance, creations which will doubtl appear later in Ascot's Royal Enclose while the men not in Service undo wore morning coats. The King Queen, Queen Mary, who had I s, celebrated her eightieth birthday, 1 the Princesses all toured ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 437 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

FAREWELL TO FIVE OF BRITAIN'S FIGHTING SHIPS: The Scrapping of Nelson, Rodney, Renown, Queen Elizabeth and Valiant

... and now ihe axe has fallen. The four battleships Queen Elizabeth, Nelson, Rodney and Valiant and the battle-cruiser Renown will now go to the shipbreaker's yard, and the battleship strength j i of the Royal Navy will be I reduced to nine. Of these, 1 Vanguard ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 778 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

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... As Coinmaiidunt of the \Y omen's Royal Naval Service the Duchess of Kent spends much of her time visiting the various branches of the Service, and inspecting: units throughout the country. She has many other activities besides. In 1940, after a three ...

Published: Wednesday 16 February 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 181 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

DESTROYERS and CORVETTES of the ROYAL NAVY And their Fine Work throughout the Seven Seas

... became part of the now famous Force H, whose first job was to disable the French Fleet at Oran. She was with H.M.S. Ark Royal when Naval aircraft from the carrier bombed Cagliari in Sardinia. In 1940, when she was refitting in London docks, the blitz was ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1013 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

ROYAL, OFFICIAL, SOCIAL, DRAMATIC A DOZEN NEWS PICTURES OF THE WEEK

... ROYAL, OFFICIAL, SOCIAL, DRAMATIC: A DOZEN NEWS PICTURES OF THE WEEK. H.M. THE QUEEN and the PRINCESSES ELIZABETH and MARGARET attended a rally of the Berkshire Women's Land Army in Windsor Great Park and presented armlets to girls with five years' service ...

Published: Wednesday 11 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 452 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs