Princess Mary – Viscountess Lascelles – on the left, inspects a Girl Guides guard of honour lining the drive of the Keighley and District Victoria Hospital on March 16, 1926.

She had come to officially open a new electro-medical block, where she would take an X-ray photograph of the Matron’s hand.

Touring the hospital, she was especially interested in the children’s wards, where there was a ‘Princess Mary Cot’ endowed on the occasion of her marriage.

The hospital presented her with a bouquet of pink roses and white heather, and she made a detour to the Town Hall Square to lay it at the War Memorial, to the delight of onlookers.

The Parish Church bells rang and children were allowed out of school to wave Union Jacks.

The Keighley News thought her “a distinctly charming personality, possessed of all a true woman’s sympathy and kindness of heart”.