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244 of Wales on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen on May the 20th, they were accorded the special privilege of the private entrée. The Nawabzada had also the honour of being privately presented to Queen Victoria by the Secretary of State for India.

After the conclusion of their visit to London, the princes stayed for a time at Sandgate on the south coast, making many interesting excursions in the neighbourhood including one to Portsmouth where the great naval dockyard was insepctedinspected [sic]. From Sandgate they went to Birmingham, where the wonders of modern industry were displayed before them in amazing variety. Perhaps no part of their whole tour interested them more than this. Here in the great workshops they saw actually in the making before their eyes those things "Made in Birmingham with which they had been so long familiar in the finished product. The small arms factory excited the keenest interest, and they watched for several hours a large order given by the Sultan of Turkey actually in course of execution. At Coventry they had the pleasure of seeing silk stuffs woven from silk which had come from their own estates in Murshidabad; at Kidderminster they saw carpets destined for their own home in course of manufacture; while Worcester furnished them with the sight of its famous glove factories and its still more famous royal porcelain works. At Chester they saw one of the finest English Cathedrals, and at Eaton Hall close by, the residence of the Duke of Westminster, they