ROYALTY IN U.S.A.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 208, 4 September 1940, Page 7

ROYALTY IN U.S.A.

SEVEN REFUGEE MEMBERS OF LUXEMBURG ROYAL FAMILY GRAND DUCHESS REMAINED Full official honours are ordered to-day for seven refugee members of the Royal Family of Luxemburg on their arrival at Annapolis aboard the cruiser Trenton. Joseph E. Davies, former Minister to the tiny Duchy, was assigned to meet them, along with other rej presentatives of-the State and Navy 'Departments. .. - A motor trip to Washington for luncheon with President Roosevelt was on the day's programme for Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma and his six children before their departure for an indefinite stay at Mi* Davies' Long Island, N.Y., home. The Prince is husband of Grand .Duchess Charlotte, ruler of the State overrun by German troops at the start of the May invasion of the. Lowlands and France. The Grand Duchess remained in Europe when the Prince sailed with 'their children from Lisbon on July 15. The U.S,S. Trenton is completing two years' service as flagship of the Navy's special European Squadron. The Royal refugees were brought as passengers at the request of the. Luxemburg Government, the State Department said. Officially, they will have the same status as other refugees whose transportation has been under great er difficulties. There was virtually as much official attention for Prince Felix, however, as when he. was a White House visitor last year. The children range in age downward from Grand Duke Jean to Prince Alix. The others are Prince Charles and the Princesses Elizabeth, Marie-Adelaide and Marie-Gabrielle. The family has been preceded to North" America by other European Royalty, and still others made refugees by war have been planning to seek haven in this country. Grown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands is in Canada, and former Empress Zita of Austria arrived last week in New York. In London, former King Zog of Albania has been trying to arrange emigration with his half-American Queen Gcraldine, his three sisters and presumably the infant Crown Prince Skander, who was born just before Italy occupied his Adriatic kingdom last year.