ROYAL VISIT PRESS RELEASE
SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1975
QUEEN AND DUKE ARRIVE IN HONG KONG
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THE QUEEN MADE HISTORY THIS EVENING WHEN SHE
ARRIVED AT HONG KONG'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO BECOME THE FIRST REIGNING BRITISH MONARCH TO VISIT HONG KONG SINCE
IT WAS CEDED TO BRITAIN IN 1841..
HER SPECIALLY CHARTERED BRITISH AIRWAYS BOEING 707,
WITH ROYAL STANDARD FLYING AT THE MAST, ROLLED TO A STOP EXACTLY ON SCHEDULE AT 5.58 P.M. AND AT 6 P.M. THE DOOR OPENED AND THE QUEEN CAME DOWN THE STEPS. WEARING A GREEN AND WHITE HAT
AND GREEN, WHITE AND BLACK CHECKED DRESS. SHE WAS LOOKING REMARKABLY FRESH AFTER HER 11-1/2 HOUR FLIGHT FROM HONOLULU AND GUAM.
BEHIND HER WAS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN A GREY SUIT, LOOKING TANNED AND FIT.
AT THE FOOT OF THE STEPS, THE QUEEN AND THE DUKE WERE WELCOMED BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, A TALL FIGURE IN A DARK GREY SUIT. AND BY LADY MACLEHOSE. WEARING A YELLOW HAT AND A YELLOW AND WHITE PRINT DRESS, ALSO WAITING TO GREET THE ROYAL VISITORS WERE THE COMMANDER BRITISH FORCES, SIR EDWIN BRAMALL, AND LADY BRAMALL, THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR GEOFFREY BRIGGS, THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, MR. DENYS ROBERTS, SIR Y.K. KAN AND LADY KAN, AND DR. S.Y. CHUNG AND MRS. CHUNG.
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AS THE ROYAL PARTY LEFT THE AIRPORT FOR THE DRIVE TO KOWLOON PUBLIC PIER, THE QUEEN'S ENTOURAGE OF SOME 30 PEOPLE WERE DISEMBARKING FROM THE AIRCRAFT. THE ENTOURAGE INCLUDES LADIES IN WAITING, EQUERRIES, A PRESS SECRETARY, MEDICAL OFFICER, THE CAPTAIN OF THE QUEEN'S FLIGHT, THE QUEEN'S DRESSER AND HAIR DRESSER, POLICE OFFICERS, MAIDS, CLERKS, SECRETARIES, VALETS, PAGES AND FOOTMEN.
ON THE WAY TO KOWLOON PUBLIC PIER THE ROADS WERE LINED WITH CHILDREN CHEERING AND WAVING FLAGS WHICH READ WELCOME TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN'. MANY SPECTATORS HAD UMBRELLAS TO SHADE THEM FROM THE FIERCE RAYS OF THE SUN.
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