Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1955Vol. XXV, No. 11

Queen and Duke

p. 59 · Read in the full issue

Page 5959

Royal Visit Books for Queen and Duke

WHEN Prince Tungi, Premier of Tonga, was received in audience by Queen Elizabeth on April 6, he presented, on behalf of Queen Salote, specially-bound copies of the official record of the Royal visit to Tonga to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Prepared in London at the re quest of the Tongan Government, the books had been sent to Tonga to be autographed by Queen Salote and returned to London by plane.

Queen Elizabeth’s book is bound in fine blue morocco, with decorative work hand-tooled in gold and the Queen’s title inscribed on the cover.

The Duke’s book is similar, but is bound in green morocco.

The photograph (above) of one of the books is by Hettig.

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