Her visit to the region in 1949 was one of the first filmed official visits after the Royal Wedding of 1947. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh enjoyed Shrewsbury's agricultural show. The Royal party was greeted by people lining the streets in Nottingham, and the then Princess Elizabeth opened Derby's new town hall.
But her first visit was to Shrewsbury in October, 1952, just months after becoming Queen. As Princess Elizabeth, she had actually become something of a regular visitor to the town, putting in appearances in 1949 and 1951.
On 26 March 1976 The Queen visited the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern, Worcestershire. During the visit Her Majesty sent her first ever email. The message was sent by the press of a button which transmitted a communication to all ARPANET users, being the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
As part of a whistle-stop Silver Jubilee tour of the West Midlands, the Queen visited Wolverhampton, Dudley, West Bromwich, Walsall, Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry on 27th July 1977.
On July 6-11 of 1976, Queen Elizabeth II visited the United States, at the time under the presidency of Gerald Ford, as part of her Bicentennial visits to former colonies of Britain. While in the U.S., the Queen toured Philadelphia, Washington, New York City, New Haven, Charlottesville, Providence, and Boston.
In 1977, it was The Queen's Silver Jubilee visit to Edinburgh. The Queen and members of the Royal Family spent five days here in May 1977 as part of the major Silver Jubilee Tour.
The Queen's visit to the ninth world scout jamboree held in Sutton Park in 1957 is still remembered by my older constituents, as she came to join in the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of scouting and had lunch in our magnificent town hall. ' If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device.
Among those historic trips was a tour of the U.S.'s West Coast in 1983. Queen Elizabeth II made stops in San Diego, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Sierra Madre, Duarte, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Sacramento, Stanford, Palo Alto and Yosemite in California, along with a stop in Seattle.
1982: The Queen, accompanied by Prince Philip, visited Ottawa for four days in order to sign the proclamation of the Constitution Act. 1983: The Queen and Prince Philip toured various cities in British Columbia over a three-day visit.
Her Majesty the Queen visited Kidderminster in 1957 and “Radiant Queen and smiling Duke win all hearts” was the headline in the Kidderminster Shuttle report, dated Friday, April 26, as thousands of people lined the route in “summer-like weather”.
2001 - Queen Elizabeth II came to Worcester with the Duke of Edinburgh in 2001 as part of the 250-year celebrations of Worcester Porcelain and to open the new Worcester City Police Station. They had lunch at Guildhall.
At the end of December 1953, Queen Elizabeth arrived in New Zealand. She and her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, stayed for almost six weeks, travelling through Aotearoa New Zealand as part of a six-month tour of the Commonwealth. Their itinerary took the couple to 46 towns and cities.
In 2003 the Monarch made her final visit to the Isle of Man. Together with the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen placed a wreath on the National War Memorial before conducting proceedings on Tynwald Hill.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine, Darwin, Kununurra, Koolan Island, Broome, Geraldton and Perth between February 18th and March 27th, travelling mostly on the Royal Yacht Britannia.
It was a visit that topped off two decades of reconciliation after the horrors of the Second World War. Described by Her Late Majesty The Queen as a 'deeply moving experience', her state visit to Germany in May 1965 was hailed for its enormous diplomatic and cultural impact.
In 1992 the Queen returned to the sesquicentenary of the incorporation of the city of Sydney. This tour included visits to regional towns, in Dubbo she visited the Western Plains Zoo.
The Queen's visit to Australia for the opening of the Sydney Opera House will begin with an arrival in Canberra on the afternoon of Wednesday 17 October. " Her Majesty will be in Canberra for three days and will leave by air for Sydney on Saturday 20 October.
The British Queen arrived in Poland on 25 March 1996 and visited Kraków for a few hours on 27 March, the final day of her trip. "The royal city of Kraków welcomed Elizabeth II with an unusually warm atmosphere despite the snow and rain.
The Queen and her husband visited Canada in 1977 to mark her Silver Jubilee. During the tour, the Queen attended the opening of the Parliamentary session and delivered the Speech from the Throne, the second time in Canadian history that she had done so.
Royal Tour of Australia by Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne included a visit to Coffs Harbour. Footage of the tour of Coffs Harbour was recorded by the ABC.
