THE ROYAL WEDDING
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King Receives Addresses Of Congratulation
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Received Thursday, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 5. For the first time since before the wai', the King occupied the rhrone in the white and gold Tnrone Room at Bucki'iignam Palace to receive the Royal wedding congratulatory addresses from the ten bodies privileged to address the King directly in speeches. - The Queen, Princess Eiizabeth and Lieutenant Mountoatten were pr.esent. The bodies represented were Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St. Andrew's Universities, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Free Churches Society of Friends. . In the House of Commons the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, read a message from the King thanking the House of Commons for the Royal wedding address. The King said: "With you we pray that Princess Eiizabeth and Lieutenant Mountbatten will be blessed with happiness in their married life."
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1947, Page 5
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