CIilhome Advertiser & Times, March 17th, 1!)!).1 i) L a n c a sn ir e - s ty le w e lc om e ia ia on | nr - . .m "If_ ® ■ _. A . __"h _ „ .. a-ii—ii. I 1 r j i tj r i
THEK1C was “a right, good Lancashire-style welcome” awaiting Her Majesty the Queen on the island of
Bermuda. Former Kibble Valley
iM P Lord Waddington of
Read writes exclusively for the “Advertiser and Times" about his impress ions of the Queen’s first visit for 20 years to Brit- ain's oldest colony — a visit which ended last week on a high note, with a knighthood for the Sab- den man. Lord Wa ddi ngt on escorted th e Queen and
my wile and 1 arrived at the airport. I mounted the saluting base for a royal salute, as almost at once the royal plane was taxiing down the runway towards us. A Right of steps was wheeled up to the door, the plane door opened and the Queen alighted. 1 was in full uniform,
to the old capital of St George to meet the Mayor and <To a walkabout in the
“Her Majesty then went
with illumed hat, and saluted, bowed and gave Her Majesty a hearty wel come, after which I pre sented my wife, the Pre mier and his wife, the Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Regiment, my
the Duke of Edinburgh during their stay, which marked the last leg of their three-week tour of Latin America, the Carib bean and Bermuda. He wr i t es : “ Her
days, but there were months of preparation.
square. She and Prince Philip travelled in the Governor’s 12-year-old Daimler, which had been completely re-upholstered to make it truly fit for a Queen, but, as it has a habit of breaking down, we were very relieved when it actually started first time and went on its way. We followed humbly in our spare car, a Subaru. “After her walkabout,
ADC and a little girl with a posy. She had been cho
sen because she had writ ten a lovely letter to the Queen, inviting Her Majesty to visit her home. “Then a 21-gun salute,
Majesty the Queen’s visit to Bermuda lasted for two
Every detail of the pro gramme was rehearsed and nothing was left to chance. “First, there was her
the canopy over the four- poster bed cleaned and re attached with great diffi culty by my wife and myself.“Rooms not occupied for years had been made readv for the royal party and for various temporary additions to our own staff, as Government House was ready to sleep Ui_ people, with many more in other houses in the grounds. At 4-15 p.m. , Her
the Queen was supposed to get back in the car to go
rather offside for the Pre mier, Sir John Swan, to make a speech interpreted by most as a pitch for independence. “The next morning, we invited the Queen and
down the road a little way to the Tucker House
the inspection of the guard of honour from the Ber muda Regiment, followed by the presentation of a long line of dignitaries. “No disasters so far, but
Majesty arrived and an investiture took place in the dining room, with background music from a harpist and flautist. “Afterwards, the Queen
Museum. But she delighted everyone by ignoring orders and strid ing off down the road on foot. My wife and I then left for Government House to be ready for Her
arrival — not in the Royal Yacht, but bv air in a RAF VC10. At 2-25 p.m. precisely, on Tuesday last,
it is very easy in the panic of the moment to forget a name and the conse quences of such a lapse were almost too awful to contemplate. So I was verv happy when the first phase of’the visit was
over.
Prince Philip to plant a tree each in the garden. A week or two before her visit, after much bad weather, we had despaired of the place looking nice, but in the last day or two everything had blossomed as if by royal command and there was a blaze of colour. Wild freesia are out in abundance just now. “A very heavy day
Majesty’s arrival there. "Government House
looked really beautiful. It was packed with flowers — Easter lilies in the Queen’s bedroom — and, for months, workmen had been about the place car rying out repairs, redeco ration, carpet cleaning, e tc . The Ber m u d a National Trust had under taken the refurbishment of the royal suite, consisting of two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a drawing room, next to our own
suite. "Furniture had been
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touched up, chairs had been re-upholstered and
mingled with the recipi ents and their families and spoke to the press. A short time to change and then we were off to the Speaker’s Banquet at the Southampton Princess Hotel. Here there was a mini disaster. Trumpeters from the Bermuda Regi ment had been assembled to blow a fanfarp on the Queen’s entry into the vast ballroom, in which nearly (500 people were waiting to dine. “The Speaker was so
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LORD and Lady Waddington in the dining room where they welcomed the Queen
the Bermuda Government Band beat the retreat on the front lawn.
awaited Her Majesty, with numerous visits through
out the island. Although we accompanied the Queen, our own thoughts were on the Government House Banquet to take place that evening. Things rcallv could go wrong there! But they didn’t . “The guests assembled
nervous that he led the Queen into the room before the trumpeters had time to perform and, after grace was said by the Bishop of Bermuda, they slunk away without sound ing a note’. The food, how ever, was excellent and the evening was voted a huge success, even by those who thought it was
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. table, which took up the whole length of the dining room, as 30 more guests sat at three tables on the terrace. A string quartet plaved and, following the Loyal Toast, coffee and liqueurs were served in the drawing room, before
for champagne from 7-30 p.m. and at 8-15 the Queen and Prince Philip joined us. At S-30 p.m. the guests began to take their places as, shortly after wards, I took in the Queen and my wife the Duke of Edinburgh. Twenty-eight people sat round the main
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FOUR Clitheroe police officers who saved the life of their chief inspector last July received special com mendation awards from St John Ambulance this
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ing, those who had helped to arrange the visit and look after the royal party were received by the Queen to say goodbye. Some of us were lucky enough to receive honours and i felt quite faint when told I was to be a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO).
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touch me on each shoulder with her knighting sword and Her Majesty then handed me the collar of gold (to be retained by my family after my death), plus the Badge and Star which make up the rest of the regalia.
“1 knelt for the Queen to
(took place with none of the ceremony of the arrival, and a wonderful visit was
the journey to the airport and the departure, which
"There then followed
her visit and there were big crowds wherever the Queen went. The sun shone, the ch i ld ren cheered and waved their Union Jacks. For two days nobody cared what the politicians were saying. They were only interested in having a glimpse of THEIR Queen — and how they loved her. “It is no joke being a
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Queen, not a conscientious Queen like ours. At times, Her Majesty must have been tired out and could have been in soine discom fort from her injured arm, encased in plaster. But she never stopped smiling. As for the people of Bermuda, 1 was ‘right proud’ of the wav thev gave their Queen a ‘right good’ Lancashire- style welcome.” Pictured are Lord and
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when he started to choke while drinking coffee and then fell backwards and struck his head on the floor.
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through relatives in Suf folk, who launched it fol lowing the cot death ol
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narian went on to raise £(>,000 for the Clitheroe Breath Fund over two years and during that time met and made many new
friends. She moved to Clitheroe
from Grasmere 24 years ago, initially living in Hoil- den, but taking the town to her heart. She retained an active mind, despite advancing years, and only now has it been revealed that she left
syndrome.” By return of post, a let
ter bearing the Royal seal dropped through the let ter-box of Mrs Brook’s home in C h a t b u r n Avenue, with a donation to the fund and a letter written on behalf of the Queen Mother by her lady-in-waiting. Mrs Brook’s involve ment with the fund came
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1991, failing health meant her departure from Clith eroe and a move to a Shrewsbury nur s ing
legacy. The person who anonymously donated
money to the Clitheroe the town a
and District Chamber of Trade to enable special
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offered to donate money towards the new centre pieces of a Father Christ mas and reindeer, going to choose them with mem bers of the Chamber of
home.At the time she wrote in a letter to the “Advertiser and Times” that she was “immensely sad to have had to leave Clitheroe and all my friends and give up my home, but 1 had no option and the change had to come sooner or later." In the letter she contin
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ued: "1 am sad at times, of course, at what 1 have lost, but am trying to live up to the example of that fine Danish man, Dag Hammarskjold, secretary general of the United Nations, who was tragi cally killed in an air disas ter. He wrote the follow ing words: ‘For all that has been — thanks! To all that
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