Annie Leibovitz's portrait of the queen, March 2007.
Posted on 05/04/2007 6:12:25 AM PDT by xp38
Queen Elizabeth II will visit Jamestown's living history museum and its archaeological dig site Friday to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in America.
The British queen and her husband, Prince Philip, will be accompanied by Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne. Cheney also is expected to attend a lunch in the queen's honor in Williamsburg.
The queen is then scheduled to visit the College of William and Mary before leaving for Kentucky, where she is to watch the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. She's also expected to visit Washington, D.C., and attend a state dinner with President Bush before leaving on Tuesday.
The royal couple arrived in the United States on Thursday and stopped first in Virginia's capital city of Richmond, where the queen spoke to the Virginia General Assembly.
She praised the cultural changes that have occurred since her last visit to Jamestown, when the anniversary was an all-white affair in a state with a government in open defiance of a 1954 Supreme Court order to desegregate public schools.
She also mentioned the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech, where a gunman killed 32 people and then himself.
"My heart goes out to the students, friends and families of those killed and to the many others who have been affected," the queen said. "On behalf of the people of the United Kingdom, I extend my deepest sympathies at this time of such grief and sorrow."
Afterward, she met briefly with students and faculty from Virginia Tech, including three who were wounded, and with 100-year-old Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights attorney whose litigation helped bring about that 1954 desegregation decision.
Then the queen was off to Virginia's restored 18th-century capital. She arrived in Colonial Williamsburg and waved a gloved hand at the several thousand people who lined Duke of Gloucester Street despite a drizzle to watch the carriage take her past homes, stores and taverns to her hotel.
Associated Press Writers Bob Lewis and Larry O'Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) in Richmond contributed to this report.
Enjoy the Kentucky Derby tomorrow your Majesty.
Put a quid on No Biz Like Sho Biz. Velasquez is riding.
Don’t step in the horse poo queeney.
Rule Britannia!
Camilla threw a shoe and may not run in the Derby. Perhaps Charles will send a jet it.
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Don'tcha just love automatic word processing?
That IS a beautiful photo.....does the Queen get to write a book? The stories she could tell.....
Soitenly! After she retires
Ha...I do NOT think she’s ever retiring.....I think she’s going to die as Queen.....you were kidding, right?
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