LOCKED FROM BALL.

Shannon News, 13 June 1924, Page 3

LOCKED FROM BALL.

| ITALIAN KING AND QUEEN. j AID FROM PRINCE OF WALES. ! LONDON, May 27. / j The Prince of Wales headed a ; storming party of excited members j of the who forced a. passage lor the King' 1 ' and Queen of Italy j through a u'gnUy-packed mass o j guests who were locked out from the Italian charity ball held at Mrs Gre- | vine's Mayiair mansion. I This extraordinary scene was the ! result ol the over-sale of tickets. Hun- ; dreds ul society, women, glittering j with priceless diamonds, and accom- : , panted by gaily-uniformed escorts, ■found taiemselves jammed a.ganxst the closed doors and railings of the mansion by an uncontrollable crowd | of who-invaded Mayfair from Solio. The Italians broke the police cordons in an endeavour to greet their King and Queen." The Royal party became separated from the 'ltalians, returning tto Buckingham Palace unescorted.

The most, striking feature of the visit of -the King and Queen of Italy to the Guildhall, where they were entertained at luncheon, was the happy conversation of the Prince of Wales with Princess Mafalda. They sat together and joked and laughed, completely absorbed for over an hour in each ' Ofher's conversation. No one who has been in contact with the Prince of Wales since the war has seen him in such completely good humour.