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- 1943-05-04
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Vera Grenfell, Lady in Waiting to Princess Alice, with women workers after receiving a gardenia corsage at the Tacoma yard of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. Marie Folk, tool room clerk, Palma Rogers and Lynn Peterson, shipfitter's helpers, presented the flowers. Miss Grenfell accompanied HRH Princess Alice and her husband, Alexander, Earl of Athlone, on a visit to the shipyards where the royal pair toured escort aircraft carriers being constructed. (T. Times, 5-5-43, p. 1; Sea-Tac Keel, Vol.1 No.7, pg 3, May 8, 1943 issue) ALBUM 3.
Visits of state--Tacoma; Nobility--England; HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone; Grenfell, Vera; Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma);