His Majesty Opens Festival of Britain

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

2106

Date Released

7 May 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1His Majesty Opens Festival of Britain
2. *Cruise and Dance Ship Makes First Trip
3. *United Home with Cup

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

King and Queen with other members of Royal Family drive in State from Buckingham Palace to St Paul’s to attend dedication service of Festival of Britain. From steps of Cathedral His Majesty afterwards make inaugural speech. Sub-title Royal Family tour exhibition Next day Their Majesties and Royal party inspect Exhibition at South Bank where Prime Minister, Cabinet Colleagues and Mr Churchill bid them welcome. Fourteen thousand members of the public are on site during Royal visit.

Keywords

Royalty; Politics and government; Ceremonies; Religion and belief; Exhibitions and shows

Library number

19522

Length of story (in feet)

215

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