Record turnout at Alexandra Blossom Festival

It was a day out fit for a King and Queen.

New ground was broken on Saturday during the 67th annual Blossom Festival when, for the first time, joint winners Nate Alexander, 17, and Lily Kain, 16, were crowned Blossom Festival King and Queen.

It was the first time in the event’s history there had been a king crowned.

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