The Archive · 1937

CHRISTENING OF DUKE OF KENT'S DAUGHTER London, Dee. 9.

The infant daughter of the Duke Ingham Palace to-day by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo. Long, has eight god-parents—the King' and Queen, Queen Maud Norway, Princess' Nicholas of Greece, Princess Olga, Princess Beatrice, the Earl of Athlone and Count Toerring.

The gold font made for King Edward VII's christening was used, and th water from the Jordan was sprinkled on the baby who wore Queen Vie~ toria's christening robes of white silk and Brussels ace.

The princess was named Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel—Christabel to mark her birth Christmas Day, The King and Queen, the Queen-Mother, the Princesses: Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Alice and the Earl of Ath-Jone were among those present at ceremony, The Archbishop of Canterbury was assisted by Prebendary Launcelot Percival, Preeentor of His Majesty's Chapels Royal—Reuter.

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