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Princess Elizabeth at Coventry and Oxford
First broadcast: 12 March 1949
Devastated during the Blitz, Coventry welcomes Princess Elizabeth, who has arrived to mark the regeneration of the city. She inaugurates a new civic scheme, lays the foundation stone of a shopping centre and visits an open-air display of cars and aircraft.
This newsreel also shows the princess receiving an honorary degree at Oxford University, where she watches a masque performed by the dramatic society and a horse.
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