ROYAL VISIT
PRESS
RELEASE
Saturday, May 3, 1975
QUEEN AND DUKE TO ARRIVE TOMORROW
Welcoming Ceremony And Quiet Evening At Government House
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied by members of the Royal household, officials and staff, will arrive in Hong Kong at 6 p.m. tomorrow, Sunday, May 4.
They are coming from a Heads of Commonwealth States Conference
in Jamaica, via Honolulu. The visit will be the first to Hong Kong by
a reigning British monarch. Prince Philip has been here once before in 1959.
At Hong Kong International Airport, the Queen and the Duke will
be met by the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, who will present Lady
MacLehose and prominent officials and residents, headed by Lieutenant-
General Sir Edwin Bramall, Commander British Forces.
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After the presentations, the Queen and the Duke will leave the
airport and drive to Kowloon Public Pier for a ceremonial crossing of the harbour on the Governor's yacht, The Lady Maurine, escorted by Her Majesty's
Ships Wolverton and Beachampton.
During this ten-minute crossing, a 21-gun Royal salute will be
fired by HMS Tamar, and there will be a flypast of Wessex helicopters by 28 Squadron, Royal Air Force; Scout. helicopters by the 656 Aviation Squadron
Army Corps; and Britten Islander, Musketeer, and Alouette helicopters by
the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force.
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