+"Cape Town South Africa" +1947 stock footage and images

British Royal family visits Cape Town, South Africa, in the first visit to South Africa by a reigning British monarch

A newsreel titled 'Royal family arrives in South Africa' shows South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts welcoming the British Royal family into Cape Town, South Africa. The Royal family consisting of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Princess Elizabeth, and Princess Margaret moves across the city in a motorcade, as the people cheer them on. They attend a garden party where nearly five thousand people are gathered to pay their respects to them. Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon wears a hat that features ostrich feathers; other women present wear grand hats and carry parasols, influenced by the queen's fashion.