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Queen Alexandra started on hey ive through London at nid-day. She was accompanied by toria, and ju a second carriage were the Duchess of Po the Hon. Charlotte Genonal Sir Dighton Prohyn, V-C, and Colonel Sir Henry Streatfeld. From Marlborough House to the Marble Arch, and thence through Oxford Street and Holborn to the Mansion House, the pavements were lined by throngs, who gave many demonstrations of the: special regard in which her Majesty is held. Eyerywhere wild roses decorated the route and everybody was wearing them.
The scenes of cathusiasm culminate ed at the Mansion House, where the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. and many others assembled on the balcony to receive and loyally return her Majesty's bow as she passed. Dense and eager crowds filed the pavements facing the Mansion House and Royal Exchange and fav wp Queen Victoria Street and Cheapside, and they expressed the loyal sentiments of the City in rousing and continued cheers. A' contingent of rose-sellers waiting in the roadway sent a shower of roses into the carriages as they' turned. Loving greetings awaited her Majesty at many other points along the route, Queen ALEXaNpRa's THANK.
Later in the day Queen Alexandra sent the following letter from Marlborough House to the Duchess of Portland, Chairman of the Alexandra Day Fund My dear Duchess,—I write to you ones more upon this the ith xa. raversary of Alexandra Day to ask you 0 express to your Committee and to all the ladies and gentlemen who have assisted you my most sincere thanks for their devoted and untiring work in promoting the good cause which 1 have so much at heart.
T remember with gratitude that Alexandra Day was inaugurated in 1911 by the ladies of "Great Britain in' my honour with the object of benefitting hospitals, convalescent homes, and Kindred institutions and charities, and it is with the liveliest satisfaction and trae pleasure that I look back ts the wonderful response which has been made to our appeals in these 11 years, resulting in over £1,000,000 being raised by collections.
East. year the result of Alexandra Day was eminently satisfactory, and the great amount of approximately £40,000 was collected in the streets of Joudon. I earnestly hope that a like
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