Special - The Royal Visit Aka Royal Visit To Sussex - Long Version (1951)

This is long version of the newsreel story. Short version can be found on the same tape - Film ID . Hastings, Brighton, Lewes, and Hove. GV. Hastings sea front. Top view, sea front. LV. Crowd waiting on pavement at Hastings, & SV. SV. Crowd waiting. SV. Mayor of Hastings, Alderman J. D. Cooper, waiting on Hastings borough boundary for arrival of Princess Elizabeth. SCU. Schoolboys waiting. Side view, people waiting. Royal car draws up in front of Mayor. SCU. Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) steps out of car and shakes hands with Mayor Alderman Cooper, Duke of Norfolk present. LV. Crowds watching. SV. Princess Elizabeth talking to Mayor beside car. LV. Princess and Mayor get back into car. Side view, schoolboys watching. SV. Car drives away from boundary, crowd cheering. GV. Church of St. John in upper St. Leonard’s. SV. Princess walking towards past girl guides with Mayor and clergy, & LV. SCU. Princess with Mayor of Hastings. Top view, people watching the ceremony of laying fou
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