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Queen Elizabeth II reads a speech in Sydney, 1954. Since 1867, the British royal family has visited Australia over fifty times, with only six visits before 1954. Elizabeth II was the first reigning monarch of Australia to have set foot on Australian soil; she first did so on 3 February 1954, when she was 27 years old. During her sixteen ...
Queen Elizabeth, then Princess Elizabeth, had been en route to Australia as part of a larger royal tour on Feb. 6, 1952 when she found out, at just 25 years old, that her father King George VI ...
4 February 1954 King George V and King George VI Memorial: Hyde Park, Sydney: NSW: 5 February 1954 Remembrance Driveway: Sydney–Canberra: NSW/ACT: 5 February 1954 Third session of the twentieth Parliament of Australia: Canberra: ACT: 15 February 1954 Australian-American Memorial: Canberra: ACT: 16 February 1954 Sesquicentenary Memorial ...
For decades, the British royal family has regularly made trips to Australia. Queen Elizabeth herself visited Australia 16 times, the first trip coming in 1954, when she became the first reigning ...
An illuminated kangaroo and lion on Williams Ltd in East Street also drew attention during the nights preceding the royal visit. [20] A fireworks display at the Rockhampton Showgrounds on 12 March 1954 signalled the start of week-long celebrations marking the imminent arrival of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in Rockhampton.
Presentation of a book of the Six Decades of H.M.The Queen's Commonwealth and State Visits, 18 December 2012. Queen Elizabeth II undertook a number of state and official visits over her 70-year reign (1952 to 2022), [1] as well as trips throughout the Commonwealth, making her the most widely travelled head of state in history.
The Queen meeting Australian entertainers who performed in a Royal Charity Concert at the Sydney Opera House, 1980 The Queen posing with the New Zealand Cabinet during her visit to New Zealand, 1981 The Queen surrounded by children in Queen Street Mall, Brisbane City, 1982 The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Closing Ceremony of the XII ...
Last year, Australia opted to put an Indigenous design rather than an image of Charles on its new $5 bill, the last banknote that had featured the British monarchy. The royal visit to Australia ...