Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Australia (1954)
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on the veranda of
O´Shannessy Lodge, Warburton, Victoria in 1954. My colorization of Percy Spiden´s photo in the State Library Victoria archive.
"On a summer's day, on February 3, 1954, the 32-year-old Duke and his wife Queen Elizabeth II, then only 27, arrived in Sydney on the Royal Yacht Britannia for the start of an epic eight-week tour, that took in 57 towns and cities across Australia. They were embarking on a six-month tour of the British Empire only eight months after the Queen's Coronation, as Prince Charles and Princess Anne stayed in London with a nanny. In 58 days, they visited every state capital, except Darwin, and toured regional centres from Burnie in northern Tasmania to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and Broken Hill, a mining town in the far-west of New South Wales, with up to three-quarters of Australians catching a glimpse of the Queen and Prince Philip."
(Daily Mail
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Australia (1954)
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on the veranda of
O´Shannessy Lodge, Warburton, Victoria in 1954. My colorization of Percy Spiden´s photo in the State Library Victoria archive.
"On a summer's day, on February 3, 1954, the 32-year-old Duke and his wife Queen Elizabeth II, then only 27, arrived in Sydney on the Royal Yacht Britannia for the start of an epic eight-week tour, that took in 57 towns and cities across Australia. They were embarking on a six-month tour of the British Empire only eight months after the Queen's Coronation, as Prince Charles and Princess Anne stayed in London with a nanny. In 58 days, they visited every state capital, except Darwin, and toured regional centres from Burnie in northern Tasmania to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and Broken Hill, a mining town in the far-west of New South Wales, with up to three-quarters of Australians catching a glimpse of the Queen and Prince Philip."
(Daily Mail