ROYALTY ENTERTAINED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 12

ROYALTY ENTERTAINED

PREMIER'S BANQUET

DOWNING STREET FUNCTION

(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 26, 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, May 25. The Prime Minister (Mr. Stanley Baldwin), who, it is anticipated, will lay down his office on Friday, had the honour tonight of entertaining the King and Queen at a banquet at No. 10 Downing Street, which was attended also by Queen Mary and other members of the Royal Family, members of Cabinet, and Dominion, Indian, and Colonial statesmen,, and other distinguished guests. Large crowds cheered their Majesties as they drove from Buckingham Palace to the Prime Minister's residence. (Received May 26, 12.30 p.m.^ LONDON, May 25. Among those present at No. 10 Downing Street, were the Dominion Prime Ministers, Messrs. J. A. Lyons (Australia), M. J. Savage (New Zealand), General Hertzog (South Africa), and Mackenui King (Canada), and Mr. and Mrs. Neville Chamberlain, Sir Johh and Lady Simon, Lord and Lady Londonderry, Lord and Lady Astor, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, and Mr. G. R. and Mrs; Attlee. The Royal Standard was hoisted over the house when their Majesties arrived, and was flown until they had departed. The Sovereign has not dined at No. 10 Downing Street since 1911, when King George V and Queen Mary were the guests of Mr. H. H. Asquith, who was then Prime Minister.