Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Royal Family Visit - 1947





My latest "find"... and I see it was given to me and my brother Tim who was aparently not yet born, from my Dad's sister Aunt Betty and her husband Uncle Wally.

Interesting to read through the souvenir booklet and look at the pictures... Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Swaziland and Lesotho were still part of the Union of South Africa. Apartheid was loosely in place - later . Jan Smuts was the Prime Minister.

I remember the Royal Family visit. I was 2 years old. I remember sitting on my Dad's shoulders, standing amongst those lining Main Reef/Coronation Roads in Krugersdorp, near our home, as the Royal Family drove past. I suppose this is my earliest memory?

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