SIX GARTER KNIGHTS INSTALLED
Elaborate Cefemony Took Hour And A-Half LONDON, December 18. With the age-old ceremony of the Most Noble Order, the King instklled six new Knights of the Garter in the how room of Buckingham Palace, Four represented the fighting services — Admiral Mountbatten, Field-Mar-shal Lord Alanbrooke, Field-Marshal Lord Portal of Hungerford, and Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery. The others were Lord Addison, Leader of the Hpuse of Lords, and Lord Cranbourne, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords. The seventh Knight-elect, Field-Marshal Lord Alexander, is absent in Canada. The elaborate ceremony took 90 minutes. Apart from the King and Queen, Queen Mary, 16 Knights Companion and officers of the Order and the knigbts-elect, nobody was allowed in the room. This was the' first chapter ever held outside St. George's Chapel, Windsor, the c'hapel of the Order.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5282, 19 December 1946, Page 5
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138SIX GARTER KNIGHTS INSTALLED Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5282, 19 December 1946, Page 5
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