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On the 75th Anniversary of the Washington Visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

June 5, 2014 · by · in British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Eleanor Belmont, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, Isabella Greenway, Lady Lindsay, Lord Halifax, Ronald Lindsay, Royal Garden Party, Royal Visit 1939, Royal Visit to Washington, World War II in Washington · Leave a comment

In Canada, the 75th anniversary of the Royal visit to North America is being honored this year with special commemorative coins and whiskey. In the United States, there has been little historical account of the jammed-packed two days in the District of Columbia and northern Virginia during the inaugural trip to North America of the […]

The Royal Garden Party

February 9, 2014 · by · in British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Eleanor Belmont, Isabella Greenway, Lady Lindsay, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Ronald Lindsay, Royal Garden Party, Royal Visit 1939, Royal Visit to Washington · Leave a comment

Ambassador Ronald Lindsay was commanded to hold a garden party for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on 8 June 1939, followed the next day by a morning reception for British subjects, and then a dinner, all at the Washington Embassy. These were to be the Lindsays’s last, but by far their most public and […]