Queen Salote to Attend
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Coronation
SALOTE of Tonga will attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England next June, he has been invited to stay at St. ames Court for the occasion.
This will be Queen Salote’s first Isit to the United Kingdom and the rst visit of a reigning Tongan lonarch. Accompanied by Princess lataaho, wife of Crown Prince ungi, she will leave Auckland, NZ, >r London in the Rangitoto, in .pril.
Queen Elizabeth, Queen Juliana of le Netherlands, and Queen Salote :e the world’s three queens who ;ign in their own right.
At present Queen Salote is in ;sidence at her newly acquired ame in Epsom, Auckland. The aeen attended by her lady-in aiting, Miss Palu Vava’u Tupou, id accompanied by her second son rince Tu’ipelehake and his wife rincess Melena’ite and family rived in Auckland by Matua from anga on November 19.
Queen Salote’s new home has been Jled Atalanga after an ancestral angan god.
Queen Salote and an official party ere entertained at morning tea >oard the liner Rangitoto by Cap in B. Evans on November 25.
They were shown over the ship id visited the quarters which Queen dote will occupy on her voyage the Coronation.
In early December, accompanied f Mrs. W. G. Bagnall as her secre ry, she spent a week in Sydney, [ost of her time was occupied with 5r dressmaker and her Coronation ardrobe.