Cheapflights.com.au Salutes Aus Among the World's Milestone Royal Tours
Its Top 5 Milestone Royal Tours of All Time Give Australia a Right Royal Ranking
(firmenpresse) - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/24/11 -- In celebration of what could be Queen Elizabeth II's last royal tour to Australia, leading travel deals website celebrates the occasion by compiling the world's Top 5 Milestone Royal Tours of all time with Aus ranking right at the top.
"Nothing shines the spotlight on a nation or a social issue like a royal tour," says Oonagh Shiel, Senior Site Editor for Cheapflights.com.au. "During all the years of her reign, the Queen has paid special attention to Australia, visiting every corner of it and giving her signature royal wave to many of its citizens."
Here we take a look at Cheapflights.com.au's top picks of royal tours and what makes them so special.
takes the cake when it comes to milestone royal tours. Having served as a first official tour destination for many a British royal, it has also served as the platform for which to launch them into the world spotlight. Speaking of firsts, it is an extra special destination when it comes to the Queen, who is the only reigning monarch of Australia to have ever visited the country. Her first tour was in 1954 when she was still a newlywed as well as a new Queen and she stayed for two months. She has come to Aus a total of 15 times, setting her royal foot upon every single state as well as the two mainland territories.
On the Queen's first visit, she arrived at Farm Cove in Sydney. Among the many territories she graced were New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland, South and Western Australia, and she opened the Parliament in Canberra. During that trip alone, the combination of transportation taken and miles covered meant that roughly 75 percent of the nation's population had gotten a chance to catch a glimpse of Her Majesty.
This, presumably, last visit is a great farewell and a chance to reflect on the lasting relationship between the Queen, her family, and this important corner of the Commonwealth.
Australia and New Zealand also served as the first foreign official tour for Charles and Diana where they spent a total of six weeks. Diana, 21 at the time, took along Prince William who was just a toddler back then. While it was unusual to take a child on an official visit, the royals were greeted with absolute adoration. Australia served as the launch platform for putting Diana on the world stage, igniting the global infatuation with the then Princess. The couple was followed around by around 1,400 media during their trip and the trip itself was credited with boosting the profile of the Royal Family as a whole. Diana dazzled with her warmth and natural affection for people, as well as with her fashion sense. She also planted a tree at a Maori ceremony in New Zealand where Prince William was greeted by the natives with a traditional nose-to-nose rub.
served as the first official tour for newlyweds Kate and William. Their first stop was Ottawa, dubbed as the honeymoon capital of the Commonwealth, where William showed off his French in addressing the Governor General and the citizens of Ottawa. The couple celebrated Canada Day where Kate showed her fashion prowess stylishly sporting in the flag's colours as well as the Queen's maple leaf brooch worn on her own first visit to Canada in 1951. The couple's activities were a mix of the serious and the fun and included the opening of the Calgary stampede as well as a dragon boat race in Prince Edward Island. The tour lasted a total of eight days and left most of Canada smitten with the young couple.
In 1997, Princess Diana put in the spotlight on an official royal visit, making her known as the Landmine Crusader. She was filmed walking through the areas containing landmines, interacting with the victims, particularly children, and condemning the use of landmines. The tremendous media coverage received during this visit helped to make the fight to ban the use of landmines a central issue rather than a side topic. Diana was invited on her visit by the British demining agency the HALO Trust.
In the summer of 2010, Princes William and Harry followed in the spirit of their mother and visited orphans in Lesotho. As Patron to the charity Sentebale, Prince Harry received an adoring welcome when he and his brother rode into the Semongkong Children's Centre on horseback, wrapped in traditional blankets that had been embroidered with the princes' names by the children of the centre. Harry was photographed cuddling some of the orphans who had lost parents to HIV and AIDS. He also spoke on behalf of the charity and he and his brother had a game of football with two of the girls' football teams. The media coverage left the world adoring Harry as having his mother's touch and put the plight of the orphans in the spotlight.
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