CANTERBURY
AT WAR
THE DUKE OF KENT

The Duke of Kent
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This is a picture of the last Duke of Kent talking to "the girls" from Marks and Spencer's when he visited the City on June 4th immediately following the second raid in the same week. Pity some people don't remember the supportive and informal ways of members of The Royal Family over the years.

During his previous visit to Canterbury in 1938 he had visited the King's School and participated in the opening of their dining-hall which was also badly damaged in this raid. Sadly, the Duke was himself to become a victim of the War in the following August.

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Later in the year, on October 30th, the City received a visit from Mrs. Clementine Churchill and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the American Preseident who was in England to see how women were helping and coping with the wartime conditions. Had they have visited the City on the next day, Saturday, October 31st, they would have experienced yet another raid firsthand. In that raid, delayed action bombs were dropped and Focke-Wulf 190's strafed the streets during this busy shopping day resulting in another 31 dead.

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