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Presentation of a book of the Six Decades of H.M.The Queen's Commonwealth and State Visits, 18 December 2012. Queen Elizabeth II became Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952 and remained Head of the Commonwealth until her death on 8 September 2022.
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. She did not require a British passport for travelling overseas, as ...
The Royal Tour of the Caribbean is a 1966 documentary film, produced by the Colonial Office to record the royal visit of Elizabeth II to her independent realms and the Crown Colonies of the Caribbean. [1] The film recorded pre-independence footage from several of stops of the tour.
Queen Sirikit: Buckingham Palace 10 17–20 October 1960 Nepal: Monarchy King Mahendra Queen Ratna: Buckingham Palace 11 10–13 July 1962 Liberia: Republic President William Tubman First Lady Antoinette Tubman: Buckingham Palace 12 16–19 October 1962 Norway: Monarchy King Olav V: Holyrood Palace [b] 13 14–17 May 1963 Belgium: Monarchy King ...
The queen meets a Chinese dragon dancer in Hong Kong during the Royal Tour of 1975. (Hulton Archive ... After the death of Queen Elizabeth, the Commonwealth gained a new leader, in her son and ...
The Prince presented the Commonwealth Points of Light Award to the President of Faces of Cancer St Lucia Dorothy Phillips, on behalf of the Queen. In the evening, the Prince attended a reception hosted by the Governor-General for the 500 guests, including Members of Parliament, groups of Commonwealth Awardees and representatives from the Arts ...
The Queen takes part in her annual birthday parade and an investiture ceremony where Steven Gerrard and Penelope Keith are among those to receive an honour. The episode also looks at the day-to-day workings of the Monarchy's headquarters, Buckingham Palace, including an interview with the Queen's ladies-in-waiting as they sort through the royal ...
With the release of their first two albums Queen & Queen II, the band began live performing in earnest, essentially following the traditional 'album-tour' cycle throughout the 70s. The embryonic Queen played numerous gigs in and around London in the early seventies, but evidence suggests that its first performance was on 27 June 1970 at Truro ...