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Article: Queen Elizabeth II's Visit (8); Finished Anglican Church Opens Doors to Queen.
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- April 22, 1999
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Unlike other places anticipating the British queen's visit, the Anglican Church just beyond the British Embassy, residence and the British Council, has remained humbly going about as usual with its schedule. No extravagant preparations or cultural spectacles, because it is almost as if the church in itself has been preparing for 73 years for British monarchs' visits.
Queen Elizabeth's Grandfather George V never saw it completed, although it was begun under his support in 1923, but the queen, the supreme governor of the Church of England as well as the Church of Scotland, entered that church in Korea that has been handed down through her family line for three ...