KING AND QUEEN

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20495, 11 May 1938, Page 7

KING AND QUEEN

VISIT TO FRANCE ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARIS RECEIVED BY THE PRESIDENT (OfTlclal Wireless) RUG BA’. May 9 The programme of the State visit of the King and Queen to Paris from June 28 to July 1 is complete. Their Majesties will travel via Dover and Boulogne and on arrival in Paris will be received at the station by the President, M. Albert. Lebrun, and Madame Lebrun, after which they will follow the State drive to the Quai d'Orsay Palace, where they will stay during their visit. Following an official call on the President and Madame Lebrun, the King will receive members of the Diplomatic Corps, and there will follow a State banquet and soiree. On June 29 the King wii; lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, and later with the Queen, he will attend a reception at the Hotel de Ville, visit an exhibition of British paintings at the Louvre, and be present at a garden party at Bagatelle. Dinner and Cpera In the evening President and Madame Lebrun will be Their Majesties’ guests at a dinner at the British Embassy. followed by a gala performance at the opera. A military display will be attended by the King on June 30, and later with the Queen he will lunch at, Versailles and afterwards attend a reception at. the Foreign Office. The chief function on July 1 will be the unveiling by the King of the Australian national, war memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, after which Their Majesties will return to London via Calais and Dover.