Banquet at Royal Naval College in Greenwich, 1955

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King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (in the Order of the Garter) and Queen Louise of Sweden (wearing the Baden Fringe Tiara and the Order of the Seraphim) were joined by her brother, Admiral Earl Mountbatten, First Sea Lord (in the Order of the Seraphim), and Countess Mountbatten (wearing her Pearl and Diamond Tiara and the Order of the British Empire) for a Banquet hosted by the Royal Navy’s Board of Admiralty in the Painted Hall of the Royal Naval College in Greenwich on this day in 1955, a year after their State Visit to Britain.

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