The Archive · 1939

Uproarious Welcome

London, June 22.

All England was prepared today io give an uproarious welcome to King George and Queen Elizabeth.

The British Monarchs will arrive off Bishop's Rock today and will be met there by a destroyer which" will escort their liner, the Empress of Britain, to Southampton.

A solid line of welcomers sixty miles long gathered along the railway tradks from Southampton to London to cheer Their Majesties on their return from North America, In London a reception, expected to be the most enthusiastic in British history, awaited Their Majesties from thousands of Englishmen attempting to surpass the unprecedented welcomes accorded the King and Queen in Canada and the United States.—United Press,

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