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"The March of the Men of Harlech"- the Welsh Choir singing before the Queen at Windsor Castle, 1898. 'The Queen has ever taken a sympathetic interest in the various institutions which aim more particularly at the preservation of territorial characteristics representative of the several ancient peoples of her Majesty's "United Kingdom." That local traditions, local pride, all, in short, that is to-day summed up in the hackneyed phrase, "local colour," appeal strongly to the Queen, has been demonstrated times without number throughout her Majesty's long reign by such pleasant incidents as that of last Tuesday evening, when the celebrated Welsh Choir performed an interesting selection from its repertoire before the Queen and the royal party in the St. George's Hall of Windsor Castle. The programme included many of the most popular specimens of Welsh minstrelsy, among them such songs as "The Men of Harlech," which long since passed into the current coin of the realm, while other items - notably, the National Anthem in Welsh - preserved more strictly the local atmosphere of the occasion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.