Our Royal Guests (1928)

Full titles read: “Our Royal Guests - Britain welcomes Amanullah, King of Afghanistan and Souriya, his beautiful Queen.“ Dover, Kent and London. M/S of a liner coming into the docks at Dover. M/S of the King and Queen of Afghanistan walking down the gangplank, followed by military men, including a guard with a busby hat. The King walks along the dockside with his military entourage and salutes a line of guards standing to attention. The King and Queen walk beside a train on a railway platform at Dover with their entourage and are greeted by men in white wigs; one reads to them from a book - presumably some kind of traditional greeting; the book is handed to the King, the Queen is given a bunch of flowers. At a London railway station (probably Victoria) we see the royal party getting off the train and being greeted by King George V and Queen Mary; they are all seen shaking hands with various military dignitaries. The two Kings walk past a line of guards in busbys outside the station then get into
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