27, 1983: During banquet at 20th CenturyFox’s Sound Stage 9, Queen Elizabeth II, center, jokes with actor Michael Caine, left. On the same day as her speech at City Hall, the queen saw a bit of exploration history: a mock-up of the space shuttle and the Apollo 14 command module at Rockwell International in Downey. This photo was publshed in an evening edtion of the Feb. 28, 1983: In Downey, Queen Elizabeth II and George Jeffs, president of Rockwell Aerospace, vist a display of an Apollo space capsule. Mayor, that I have not come here to press that claim.” “I am happy, though, to give you an immediate assurance, Mr. The queen lightheartedly reminded Los Angeles residents that her northward journey from San Diego this weekend paralleled a similar trip made 400 years ago by Sir Francis Drake “who (unsuccessfully) claimed this territory as Nova Albion for the first Queen Elizabeth and for the queen’s successors forever. In a speech at City Hall, she defended Britain’s actions in the Falkland Islands, praised Los Angeles’ diversity and economy, and even got in a joke (recounted in a article Feb. While in Los Angeles, Elizabeth met Mayor Tom Bradley. This photo was published in the March 1, 1983, Los Angeles Times. 28, 1983: Queen Elizabeth II waves to a crowd while being escorted into Los Angeles City Hall by Mayor Tom Bradley. “A narrow, twisting, steep obstacle course of flooded streams, washed-out sections, downed tree limbs and falling boulders.” A Chevrolet Suburban got the president and the queen up the hill: “She found the trip delightful and terribly exciting,” Elizabeth’s press secretary was quoted as saying. It was “an extremely hazardous venture by any standard,” The Times reported. (George Rose / Los Angeles Times)Ī storm was howling and dumping rain on the Santa Barbara coastline when the queen arrived for a trip to President Ronald Reagan’s retreat at 2,400 feet up in the mountains. This photo was published in the March 2, 1983, Los Angeles Times. The queen with the president March 1, 1983: Queen Elizabeth II and President Ronald Reagan chat at Santa Barbara airport before a visit to the Reagans’ hilltop ranch. The agents, part of a detail protecting the queen, were driving around a curve on Highway 132 when they crashed, The Times reported then. Secret Service agents in a head-on collision with a Mariposa County Sheriff’s Department car. The queen’s visit to Yosemite was marred by the deaths of three U.S. This photo was published in the March 6, 1983, Los Angeles Times. The queen at Yosemite March 5, 1983: Queen Elizabeth II visits Yosemite National Park, accompanied by park superintendent Robert O. These Los Angeles Times photographs document parts of Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to California. She then went on to Victoria, British Columbia. Her trip started in San Diego and moved north from there: to Los Angeles for a meeting with then-Mayor Tom Bradley, to Santa Barbara to meet then-President Reagan, and on to San Francisco, Sacramento, Yosemite and finally Seattle.
Queen Elizabeth the II, who turns 90 today, visited the West Coast of the United States for the first time in February and March of 1983.
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