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Title: Prince of Wales visit, 1926 [Go to resource]
Description: Large crowds gathered across Reading to greet the Prince of Wales, later to become the Duke of Windsor. The photograph shows the clear segregation of male and female employees - with the women wearing white and the men in darker clothes. The Princes' visit was to mark the supposed centenary of the company - in fact the company was already 104 years old! His other engagements that day included Huntley, Boorne & Stevens tin works and the Royal Berkshire Hospital. The Prince was an extremely popular figure until the 1936 abdication crisis when he refused to give up Mrs Simpson. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: social history
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Edward Prince of Wales
peopleTemporal: start=1926-01-01; end=1926-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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