The Archive · 1937

M. SPAAK ACCOMPANIES BELGIAN MONARCH SPECIAL TO THE "N.N."

London, Nov. 16.

Royal welcome will be accorded King Leopold of the Belgians when he arrives in England to-day on a four-day visit to King George and Queen Elizabeth.

King Leopold, accompanied by his acting Foreign Minister, M. Paul Henri Spaak, will cross the Channel in the steamer Prince Albert. They Will be met in mid-Channel by an air escort of nine British planes and a flotilla of British destroyers which will convoy the steamer to Dover where the party will land at 1 pam. to a Royal salute fired by shore batteries, The Duke of Gloucester, attended by Field-Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd and the Belgian Ambassador, Baron E. de Cartier de Marchienne, will be at the quayside to welcome the King, who will then travel in a special train to Victoria, where King George and other members of the Royal family, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, and Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, will greet him.

King Leopold will subsequently drive through lines of troops to Buckingham Palace.—Reuter,

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