Diamond Jubilee: The Stamp of Queen Elizabeth's Influence

Traveling Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II waves to onlookers from a balcony in Bonn, Germany, on May 19, 1965. The Queen and her husband were on an 11-day state visit. Throughout her time as Queen, Elizabeth would become the most widely traveled of any previous monarch.

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