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Maharani's Difficulties on Air. Lincr PURDAH OBSERVED LONDON, April 22. The Manamiri if lodhpur has arrived -from Karachi .by air witness the Coronation. ,She was enabled by xemarkable precantions to maintain her lifelong purdah, necessitating neither a man nor & woman who is not of the Maharaja's or Maharani's caste getting a glimpse of the Maharani's heavilyveiled face or touching her food. The Maharaja, despite an income of £800,000 a year, was unable to hire a special 'plane. Accordingly, he reserved a cabin in a K.L.M. 'plane in which the crew were locked in the cockpit at each end of a stage until the Maharani left the 'plane and reached a private room. Einally, at Croydon, the Maharani left the 'plane by a canvas-covered tunnel and entered a motor-car, the windows of which wero painted over, and drove to London where she waa •imilarly secluded.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 83, 24 April 1937, Page 6
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