BRONZED AND WELL
PRINCE RETURNS FROM AFRICAN TOUR FLIES FROM FRANCE United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright RUGBY, Thursday. The Prince of Wales landed at the Windsor Great Park at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The escorting airplanes passed off westward as the Prince’s Wapiti machine came to earth. As the Prince stepped out of the plane he was greeted by Prince George. Only a few people witnessed his arrival. Entering the King’s car, which had come to meet him, the Prince drove to Fort Belvedere, his residence near Ascot, where the King and Queen awaited him. His Royal Highness looked bronzed and well. From Le BourgeL, where he lunched with French officers, His Royal Highness was escorted by eight French Army airplanes in addition to two British machines which had accompanied him from Marseilles. The French machines attended him to three miles limit off Calais, where nine British machines from Folkestone met him and flew with him across the Channel. The Prince’s machine, piloted by Squadron-Leader Don, took the airliner route to Dover. It flew at a height of 6,000 feet, while the escort flew at about 10,000 feet. It is estimated the Prince has travelled IS,OOO miles since he left England on January 3 for his African tour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 11
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207BRONZED AND WELL Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 11
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