Londoners Flock to King's Birthday Parade

Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1949, Page 5

Londoners Flock to King's Birthday Parade

(N.ZP.A—

-Reuter.

, Cojwright)

Received Friday, lu.dj a.m. LONDON, June 9. The firsi full-diess tro^ping Qf the co'ours since the war broughi bd,cK 1116 King s Birthday paguanory for Lon'aoneis today. ivloi'0 Jian 100,000 peop e_ were jamniod along The Mah, in the IHoise Guards parade and ii^ front ui Buckingham Palace- two hours befoie the Kiiig to-k the sa.ute, and by the time the King left the Palace and drove to the parade ground 'the crowd had increased to 300,000. 'ine King did not. ride to the parade, but drove there in\ an open .andau drawn by tv/o Windsor greys. pimcers Elizabeth and the Duke of Gloucester rode . immediate.y cehind the King's carriage and a j glittering escort of guards com- , manders f ollowed 'them. | . Princess Elizabeth, riding side1 saddle in a b'ue uniform as Colone ! of the Grenadier Guards, gavs the ; crowd. a master'y exhibition of horsemanship. Her chestnut expolice horse, Winston, was restless He backed and pranced while the massed bands played the slow march past and the Princess had great diffleul y in. keeping him under control. The Queen, watching the trooping from abcve the Horse Quards Arch, "ooked down anxiously and after the parade the King left the saluting base, walked over to his daughter and complimen ed her on the way she had handled her horse Queen Mary was the first of the Royal Family to arrive at the parade. A few minutes later the Queen and Princess Margaret drove through the cheering erowds in an open landau. Ceremony In Berlin. In Berlin representatives of Britain, France. the United States end Russia stood to attention whi'e the Royal St^ndard was raised and .owered and massed bands played the National An'hem to celebrate the King's Bifthday. British troop? marched down the parade ground outside the famous Olympic Stadium to salute the colours. Bevliners crowded the area to watch. | Later, two Soviet genera's. ac.cepting a V/estefn AFied social invitation for the first time since last summer, at ended a cocktail party given by General Robertson, British Militarv Governor in Germany, in honour of the King's Birthday They were Lieut. -General O. Slukyanchenko, Soviet Chief of StafT, and Major-General Alexander Kotikov, Soviet Commander in Berlin.