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WHY DID THE ROYAL FAMILY COME TO SOUTH AFRICA IN 1947:

The Royal Family King George VI, his wife Queen Elizabeth and his two daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret undertook a leisurely 3 month journey through their Southern African dominions..South Africa itself...
Visit to the Kimberley Diamond Mines 18th April Friday..Princess Elizabeth inspecting graded diamonds...

19 April 1947 Princess Elizabeth was presented with a 6 carat perfect blue and white diamond and Princess Margaret received a 4.5 carat stone gift from the Oppenheimers....
....(presented by Mary Oppenheimer)..The Union government’s 21st birthday gift to Princess Elizabeth were 87 more diamonds suitable for setting in a necklace 21 major stones  totalling 71.31carats....
South Africa was a self-governing dominion but the King was the constitutional head of South Africa and one task was to open the 1947 session of the Union Parliament shortly after his arrival in Cape Town...
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