Princess Elizabeth, on the eve of her 23rd birthday, with the children at Victoria to-day. Fifty Childers, 25 boys and 25 girls chosen from bomb Victims and orphans in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Plymouth, holiday, they are to spend four weeks in Lucerne, Switzerland at the expense of the hoteliers and City Council of Lucerne to celebrate the birth of Prince Charles. Princess Elizabeth was at Victoria Station to see them off. She spoke to many of them and also to French boys and girls who were returning to their homes round Lille after a heliday in England. April 20, 1949.