Queen Wilhelmina's 1946 Gift to the King ✈️

Item title reads - Queen Wilhelmina's gift to the King.



London.



M/S as Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (the Netherlands) gets off the aeroplane and is met by the Earl of Athlone and Wing-Commander Townsend, equerry to the King. L/S of the royal family watching as Queen Wilhelmina's gift of 36 horses are paraded around courtyard at Buckingham palace. They are to commemorate the liberation of Holland and the role played by the Household Cavalry, who will use the horses. M/S's of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother), Queen Mary, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret watching. The horses line up and the royal family look at them closely.
FILM ID:1406.13



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