Tangy whitecaps snickered and huge rollers boomed sea-mirth, last week, as H. M. S. Renown hove to off Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and the Duke and Duchess of York prepared to land amid a heavy sea in the frail royal motor barge.
Good sports, Their Royal Highnesses laughingly took a thorough sousing. A tennis party followed on shore, then tea at which the Duke plucked a ripe orange from a nearby tree and ate it, remarking at the stinging taste experienced on biting into ripe orange peel Finally the royal party were...
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