TRAGIC DEATH
Coronet Bearer's Child Killed (Received 13, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON," May 12. ' While the Hon. Gustavus Lascellea Hamilton Russell was waiting at Westminster Abbey to bear the Princess Royal 's coronet, his four-year-old daughter, Charmain, was killed through failing down a lift shaft at a house in Carlton Gardens, where she had been, taken to see the procession. The father was called and arrived in time to . see his child die in hospital in the presence of her mother and grandfather, .Sir Harry Verney, formerly secretary to Queen Mary. The Hon. Hamilton Russell is a nephew of the Earl of Harewood. His sistef carried the Princess Royal 's train.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 99, 13 May 1937, Page 6
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