The Visit
The visit, in the company of the Mayor of Guildford, took place on a beautiful hot afternoon. While Princess Anne was there she was shown two choir seats embroidered for St. Lawrence Church that had been designed by Mrs. Jessica E. Page for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, depicting the Queen’s Beasts with the years of her reign on their shields.
Mr. Edward Crouch, Clerk to Effingham Parish Council, had arranged for the local schoolchildren to be waiting for the Princess to drive past them when she left; unfortunately the Princess, who was pregnant at the time, found the heat too much; instead, she turned smartly away, was helped into her car and sped off in the opposite direction, to the children’s disappointment.