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  1. Queen Elizabeth’s four-hour visit to Brisbane leaves lasting impression

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  2. The Queen’s visit to Brisbane: Updates as they happen

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  3. Queen Elizabeth II visits Brisbane

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  4. Queen Elizabeth II's first visit to Queensland

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  5. Queensland remembers: Queen’s visits to Sunshine State recalled fondly

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  1. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia In 4k

  2. Queen's visit to Ireland (Bricks N All)

  3. A look back on the Queen's many visits to Australia

  4. Brisbane, Australia: Walking City Hall to Botanic Gardens (4K)

  5. Queen's visit: Everything's set

  6. The Queen visits college

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  1. Royal visits to Queensland

    The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Brisbane in October 2011. Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh visited Brisbane on Monday 24 October 2011. While in Brisbane, they travelled down the Brisbane River to view some of the areas affected by the January floods.

  2. Royal Visits to Queensland: An historical essay

    The tour lasted from 19 to 29 October and, on 24 October, included a visit to Brisbane where the Queen attended a Queensland Government Reception for those affected by the natural disasters during the summer of 2010/11. Whilst in Brisbane, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh delighted crowds taking a cruise on the Brisbane River from ...

  3. MoB Sunday Stories: The Queen's first visit to Brisbane

    MoB Sunday Stories: The Queen's first visit to Brisbane. On 9 March 1954, Queen Elizabeth II made history by being the first-ever reigning monarch to set foot in Queensland. With her husband Prince Phillip in tow, the then 27-year old monarch arrived in Brisbane to much fanfare and excitement. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip en route to ...

  4. Royal tours of Australia

    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 is the first and only 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 journeys, the Queen visited every Australian ...

  5. The Queen in Queensland, 1954

    By: Megan McCarthy. Although many members of the British Royal family had visited Queensland since Queen Victoria reportedly decreed her own title to the name of the Colony in 1859, Queen Elizabeth II was the first reigning monarch to set foot in the State. Arriving in Sydney on 3 February 1954 she spent two months in Australia visiting every ...

  6. Six decades of royal visits: Queen Elizabeth II in Australia

    The Queen first visited Australia in 1954 - when she became the first reigning monarch to set foot on Australian soil - and the last in 2011. ... Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visiting ...

  7. Queen Elizabeth II's visits to Australia: How the Queen travelled, from

    The Queen's 1963 visit was responsible for another significant technological breakthrough. ... In 2002 to mark her Golden Jubilee the Queen and Duke arrived in Adelaide and flew out of Brisbane on ...

  8. Queen Elizabeth II's Inaugural Visit to Queensland

    As the first ever reigning monarch to visit Australia, Queen Elizabeth II created great excitement and celebration in Queensland when she and The Duke of Edinburgh visited in 1954. The Royal couple's tightly timed seven-day itinerary allowed them to visit Brisbane and seven regional centres, spending precisely one hour 25 minutes in Bundaberg ...

  9. Queen Elizabeth II

    We remember the life of Queen Elizabeth II with a video from British Movietone of the Queen's visit to Brisbane in 1963. 1963 - With the Queen in Australia (14 March 1963) WITH THE QUEEN IN AUSTRALIA (COLOUR) 18 miles up the Brisbane River lies Brisbane itself. The city of more than 600,000 and capital of Queensland

  10. 1954 Royal Visit to Brisbane

    Copy created by Queensland State Archives: https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM2749782Film footage showing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the ...

  11. Queen Elizabeth's four-hour visit to Brisbane leaves lasting impression

    follow. SHE spent just over four hours in the state that bears her name but the Queen's visit left a lasting impression on a recovering Brisbane. More than 45,000 people crowded into South Bank to ...

  12. Brisbane illuminated

    By Myles Sinnamon, Engagement Officer, State Library of Queensland | 16 September 2022. One of the main attractions to coincide with the 1954 Royal visit to Brisbane of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was the Royal Tour illuminations. Initially planned to run every evening between 5th to 20th March, a number ...

  13. Royal Visits to Australia

    2011. Royal Visit to Australia by Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh: 19-29 October 2011. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet published details of the Royal Visits to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022. More information about Australia's Platinum Jubilee celebrations is ...

  14. The Queen's visit to Brisbane: Updates as they happen

    10:40am: Police and security guards are outnumbering well-wishers at Brisbane Airport's old terminal ahead of the Queen's arrival at 11.10am, reports Robyn Ironside. About 30 people have gathered ...

  15. Royal visits to Brisbane

    The main objective of Prince Henry 's visit was to open the centenary celebrations of Victoria on 18 October 1934. Yet he spent 10 days in Queensland. His itinerary was busy visiting Stanthorpe, Toowoomba, Gatton, Ipswich, and Brisbane. At Archerfield Aerodrome, he declared the overseas service of Qantas open.

  16. In pictures: A look back at the Queen's visits to Australia

    In pictures: A look back at Queen Elizabeth II's visits to Australia during her 70-year reign - as nation mourns her death. Queen Elizabeth II visited Australia 16 times during her long reign ...

  17. Queen Elizabeth Ii In Brisbane

    With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest serving and much-loved monarch, we look back on her visits to Brisbane throughout the years: 1954 saw the first member of the monarchy-in-residence arrive in Brisbane, with the extensive tour by a recently crowned young and glamorous Queen Elizabeth that was universally declared a raging ...

  18. Royals In Brisbane

    Royals In Brisbane. With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest serving and most loved monarch, we look back on the visitations of Brisbane throughout the years by members of the British royal family, including Queen Elizabeth. It all started back in 1867-68 when somewhat hapless little-known royal, Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria ...

  19. The Queen's Platinum Jubilee 2022

    March 1954. Queen Elizabeth II is the only reigning monarch to visit Australia. While in Queensland, she visited several regional centres, including Cairns and Mackay, starting and finishing her visit to Queensland in Brisbane.

  20. A First Timer's Guide: Brisbane's Best Things to Do

    A visit to Mulgimpin ( Moreton Island ) is one of the best things to do in Brisbane, and it's just a ferry ride away. Dive or snorkel the world-famous Tangalooma Wrecks and immerse yourself in the ecosystems thriving among the 15 sunken shipwrecks just off the island. As well as huge coral formations and brightly coloured fish, you'll also be ...

  21. Four (4) photographs of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on her visit

    About this object. Four (4) photographs of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on her visit to Brisbane in February 1958. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was born Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon on 04/08/1900 and died on 30/03/2002. She was the wife (Consort) of King George IV, and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.

  22. Queen's Wharf History

    The Queen's Gardens is a square of Brisbane CBD green space bounded by William, Elizabeth and George Streets and, in 2017, the Heritage Hotel. ... Queen's Gardens now consisted of a total of 0.48 hectares of land of gardens open to the public. In preparation for the visit in March 1963 of Queen Elizabeth II, a new layout for the gardens was ...

  23. Myer family takes on sushi queen over Toorak mansion

    Next door is the home of Sarah Myer, the Myer family matriarch who is aged in her 80s and the widow of Baillieu "Bails" Myer, the son of the department store founder Sidney Myer.

  24. King Frederik kisses Queen Mary on Sweden state visit in sweet moment

    King Frederik and Queen Mary charmed on their very first state visit to Sweden and while it was all about the pomp and ceremony, the couple were also captured sharing an affectionate moment.. The ...

  25. Queen's Visit to Brisbane, 1954. Meet the 92 Minute "Queen" & Royal

    Queen Elizabeth's visit of 1954 was the first by a sitting monarch of Australia and such a notable event would be worthy of a few rehearsals and her visit to Brisbane alone involved three rehearsals for three individual events and for all the rehearsals Miss Gloria Stewart was front and centre, assuming the roll of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth.

  26. Danish King Frederik, wife visit Sweden on first official trip abroad

    Denmark's King Frederik X has arrived in Stockholm with his Australian-born wife Queen Mary, as they begin their first official visit abroad as new Danish monarchs. Menu. Menu. World. U.S. Election 2024. Politics. Sports. Entertainment. Business. Science. Fact Check. Oddities. Be Well. Newsletters. Video. Photography . Climate.

  27. Queen Rania of Jordan says U.S. is seen as "enabler" of Israel

    Palestinians and others in the Middle East see the U.S. as an "enabler" of Israel in its war with Hamas, Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan said Sunday on "Face the Nation." "People view the U.S ...

  28. King Charles and Queen Camilla to Host Japan State Visit in June

    In spring 2020, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako planned to travel to the United Kingdom for a state visit. That trip was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and now, four years later ...

  29. King and Queen in S'pore for maiden state visit

    SINGAPORE: The King and Queen of Malaysia, His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim and Her Majesty Raja Zarith Sofiah, arrived in Singapore yesterday for a two-day state visit to the republic.

  30. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden Perfectly Curtsies to Queen Mary of

    King Frederik and Queen Mary's official visit to Sweden also starts a major tour of the Northern region following their accession, which continues with a state visit to Norway from May 14 to May 1.