Thai consul general chicago mr. saxe promotee
Furthermore, the journey went to Jerusalem. The Crown Prince also visited the new port facilities in Beirut and visited the offices of the Swedish Oriental Line, Volvo and SKF. The High Commissioner of the Levant, with whom the Crown Prince and Crown Princess stayed, hosted a dinner, as did the President of the Lebanese Republic. In Beirut, the royals were received with military honors and were guests of the French government. During the return journey to Beirut, Baalbek and the ruins of the old sun city were visited.
On 6 December, the President of the Syrian Republic hosted a banquet for the Crown Prince's family, who stayed in Syria for four days. Prince Bertil accompanied the car caravan through the desert, where camel troops paraded at Rutbah station. Īfter a week-long unofficial stay in Baghdad with visits to modern factories and excursions to Ur and Babylon, the Crown Prince Couple and Princess Ingrid left for Damascus on 5 December by plane. On 25 November, the return journey to Baghdad began over the snowy passes along the Kum-Sultanabad- Kermanshah road, a three-day uninterrupted journey by car. In the latter place, the royals lived in the so-called Xerxes' harem and visited the city under the leadership of Professor Ernst Herzfeld. The Crown Prince's family then left on 17 November in Volvo cars for Isfahan and Persepolis. He then returned to Tehran to say goodbye to the Shah. After several days in the Persian capital, he left for Mazandaran Province to study for three days the ongoing construction work for the Trans-Iranian Railway. The Shah then accompanied the Crown Prince to the Golestan Palace. The Crown Prince's family went in a procession to the castle, where the Shah for the Crown Prince represented the council president and others were present. At the border, they were received by a representative of the Persian government and in Tehran by the Foreign Minister and the Grand Master of the Ceremonies, as well as representatives of government agencies. On 6 November, the royals left by train for Khanaqin, where cars were ready to take them to Tehran. At all the official events that followed, except for King Ghazi of Iraq, his uncle and father-in-law, King Ali of Hejaz, the President of the Council and members of the Cabinet, the President of the Senate and others. The King Ghazi of Iraq met at his country retreat Kasr-el-Zuhoor, from where he accompanied his guests to Bilatt Castle. The Crown Prince Couple, Princess Ingrid and Prince Bertil then boarded a British military plane and arrived in Baghdad on the same day. In Aleppo, the stay was extended to about 14 days, when the Crown Prince contracted a mild intestinal catarrh due to the stressful climate. From here, the departure took place on 15 October with the president's own train and on the 17 October it arrived in Aleppo, after Prince Bertil and a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs joined the party on the way. On 10 October, the royal travelers continued with Vasaland, which arrived on 12 October in Smyrna. The stay in Turkey ended with a four-day incognito break in Istanbul, during which several receptions were held at the Swedish legation. On 5 October, a two-day visit to Bursa was made. The visit to Ankara lasted from 3 to 5 October. After his arrival, the Crown Prince visited Atatürk as well as Foreign Minister Tevfik Rüştü Aras. At the station, the guests were received by Atatürk, members of the government and the administration. At the platform, President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's caravan waited, in which the journey continued to Ankara. The sloop docked at the quay in front of Haydarpaşa railway station. After the ship dropped anchor, the royals were landed on the Asian side of the strait. After returning to Athens, Vasaland departed for Thessaloniki on 28 September, where the international fair was visited.
Furthermore, an excursion was made to Delphi, Nafplio and Delos with the cruiser Hellas. On 20 September, they arrived in Piraeus, from where the royals took a train to Athens, where they were received by the President of Greece and representatives of government agencies. They stopped at Patras and then the journey continued to Aegion. The journey went by rail via Malmö, Berlin and Rome to Messina, where the royals boarded the Swedish Oriental Line motor ship Vasaland, destined for Greece. The journey began on 13 September from Stockholm. Gustaf Adolf became Crown Prince of Sweden on the death of his grandfather, King Oscar II on 8 December 1907.įrom September to December 1934, the Crown Prince, Crown Princess Louise, Princess Ingrid and Prince Bertil visited a number of countries in the Near East. Gustaf Adolf wearing his ducal coronet in Stockholm Palace circa 1900