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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 became the first reigning Australian monarch to set foot on Australian soil when she arrived in Sydney on 3 February 1954. In 1953, it was announced that, subject to royal assent , the northern approach to the newly constructed Fitzroy Bridge would be called Queen Elizabeth Drive to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II .
Australia's national flower is the Golden Wattle, and the late Queen Elizabeth received what's now known as the Australian Wattle Brooch as a gift from the government and people of Australia ...
Australia: Prince Harry's first official visit to the country where he attended the International Fleet Review at Sydney Harbour. [18] He also paid a visit to the Australian SAS HQ in Perth, accompanied by Prime Minister Tony Abbott. [19] United Arab Emirates: On his way back from Australia to the UK, Harry attended a charity event for ...
The Queen in Australia is a 1954 documentary about the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Australia in 1954. It was the first colour film made in Australia. [2] It was released in the US by the Australian government information service. [3]