Author: Elizabeth Morton
Title: Sunday Graphic Royal Tour Picture Album
Description: Pitkin Pictorials 1954 Hardback, 104pp. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh left London on 23rd November, 1953, for the longest journey ever undertaken by a British Sovereign - a journey of 50,000 miles by land, sea and air that took them right round the world. To the widely separated peoples of the Commonwealth and Empire, of so many different races and religions, the Royal Tour brought long-awaited and affection. And the Queen by her graciousness and charm and the Duke by his easy informality and enthusiasm for everything he saw, endeared themselves to all who gathered to greet them in the cities and towns and the distant corners of a dozen different lands. Everywhere 'the British family of nations' has been drawn perceptibly closer by the common link of loyalty to the Crown, a link which hitherto had often been remote and invisible but which is now a shining, living inspiration to many millions of people. This Album, with over 250 photographs, tells the complete - and authentic - story of this great and triumphal Royal journey from the eveing when the Queen and her husband left Buckingham Palace to the unforgettable day six months later when, with their children, they came home to receive a welcome which, in its sincerity and fervour, was in itself a milestone in Royal history. No DJ. No dust jacket. Fair.

Keywords: Royalty


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