KING & QUEEN CHEERED
Visit to the East End LONDON, Feb. 13. i For the first time since their acces-j jsion, their Majesties carried oqt a joint} lengagement when they visited the Eastj ,End to open the new People's Palac'e. | !The opening should have been carried! jout by the Duke of Windsor, but it wasj delayed owing to the impending abdica-; tion. Cheering crowds lined the route! from Piccadilly to the borough of Pop-'j dar. East End strcets were decoratedwith streamers, bunting and Coronation. emblems. Children were especially well' placed, all wearing favours of national! .colours. There were many shouts ofi "God savq their Majesties," the King, jin morning dress, responding by salut;ing and waving -his hat and the Queen jby smiling. At one stage the Easfc jEnders swept away the police cordon! jand stopped the car's progress. People Jsurrounded the vehicle, pressing their jface3 to the windows and cheering enithusiastically, their Majesties acinow■ledging smilingly. The King and Queen spent an hour iinspecting the new palace and listened ■to a musical programme. They receivi ,ed the Mayors of Shoreditch, Hackney^ Bethnal Green and Stepney, with whomi they discussed local problems.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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