ROYAL VISIT PRESS RELEASE
Sunday, March 23, 1975.
THE QUEEN'S EXTENSIVE JOURNEYS ABROAD
Visit To Hong Kong 44th In Series Since 1952
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When the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive in Họng Kong
in May en route to a state visit to Japan, it will be their 44th trip
abroad since 1952.
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In that year, the Queen, as Princess Elizabeth, had reached
Kenya on the first stage of a visit with Prince Philip to Australia
and New Zealand.
They had gone in place of the Queen's father, King George VI,
who had been prevented by illness from making the tour. Not long after
their arrival, news of the death of the King was announced, and the Princess, now Queen, had to cancel the remainder of the tour to return
to London.
The Queen's programme of annual visits in her role as Sovereign
began in 1953, when she and the Duke made an extensive tour of Common-
wealth countries including Bermuda, Jamaica, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand,
Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar.
Non-Commonwealth countries also visited during this tour
included the Republic of Panama, and Libya, where the Queen and Prince
Philip were received at Tobruk by King Idris.
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