ROYAL GUESTS
ACCOMMODATION AT WHITE HOUSE. USE OF FAMOUS ROOMS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright WASHINGTON, November 18. King George and Queen Elizabeth will be house guests at the White House when they visit the capital. They will also spend a day at the World’s Fair. Their Majesties will occupy the entire east end of the second floor. Mrs Roosevelt revealed today that it was impossible to accommodate the entire retinue of 40 in the White House. The Queen will sleep in the room in which Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. It has been used as an office by a long series of Presidents. The King will sleep in what is called the pink room. Their Majesties will share as a sitting-room the Monroe room, in which the peace treaty, with Spain was signed in 1902. Presidents] from Johnson to Theodore Roosevelt have used it as a Cabinet room.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 5
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