For the Orkney Vintage Rally this year, I was asked to create an exhibition of Archive photographs of Royal Visits to Orkney. The photos I chose to show are just a tiny proportion of the images we have collected over the years and they are not all the usual faces... I hope you enjoy them.
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
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Our favourite photo of Queen Elizabeth, laughing at Prince Philip trying to drive the school bus.
1970s
Our new favourite photo of Prince (now King) Charles with some adoring fans.
1980s
1990s
At the risk of being accused of pedantry, may I gently correct the caption relative to the 1980s photograph of the Duchess of Gloucester about to board a helicopter? The aircraft (a Westland Wessex) is actually one of the Royal Air Force’s Queen’s Flight (not RN as captioned). If it were in colour, the overall livery would be red.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. We are never critical of anyone correcting our information. It is a good thing to have the facts right.
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