It’s no coincidence that the Queen usually wearing vivid colors on her excursions: this was deliberate, in order that she could be “seen to be believed” (because the phrases of her well-known motto go), and her senior dresser, Angela Kelly, was recognized to journey to future locations weeks prematurely to guarantee that the outfits chosen didn’t conflict with backdrops. To make sure there have been no unlucky wardrobe mishaps, weights had been sewn into the hems of her skirts and clothes, so she by no means needed to fear a few rogue gust of wind.

An intrepid traveller

The Queen by no means shied away from finishing up her duties overseas, whether or not for private causes – her 2002 Golden Jubilee tour, which took in New Zealand, Australia and Canada, began in Jamaica simply 9 days after the demise of her sister – or political ones. In 1961, she travelled to Ghana amid fears for her security, throughout a tough interval when the Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah, was underneath risk of assassination. In 1991, she discovered herself clinking glasses with Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, when in Harare for a summit of Commonwealth leaders.

 However maybe most well-known of all was her journey to Eire in 2011, when she grew to become the primary British monarch to set foot within the Irish Republic (the final sovereign to go to had been her grandfather, George V, a full century earlier). The four-day go to got here with unprecedented safety measures, with 8,000 police and troopers on the streets. Throughout a stirring handle on the finish of her go to, the Queen referred to the IRA’s homicide of Earl Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle, however emphasised that we should always “bow to the previous, however not be certain by it.”

First printed on Condé Nast Traveller UK