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Friday, June 5, 1953

AT 10.00 a.m. BY GRACIOUS INVITATION OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN SAW THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD, BY REPRESENTATIVE UNITS OF THE CANADIAN ARMY, FROM WITHIN THE FORECOURT OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE.


Following the ceremony of the Changing of the Guard, members rejoined their coaches and proceed to HAMPTON COURT where lunch was served, in the Tilt Yard Gardens Restaurant.
After lunch a short visit was paid to KEW GARDENS.
It would be 46 years before I got there again.
Following dinner at the ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY,we saw "THE YOUNG ELIZABETH" at the Criterion Theatre.
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