Ruler of the waves: the Queen aboard the HMY Britannia in 1972, from above, laughing on deck
(Picture: Lichfield Archive via Getty Imag)It was a 25,000 mile tour for the royal couple, which began in Bangkok and ended in Nairobi. And some of the most memorable images of the Queen were taken on this tour, where she was seen donning the iconic pearl and diamond Vladimir Tiara to the opening of the Mauritian Parliament (and which Her Majesty is wearing on the cover of this special Jubilee edition of ES Magazine).
‘No disrespect to the Queen,’ quipped one news reporter, ‘but this morning she really looked like a Queen, driving around the streets in a full robe and tiara — [in] the steamy tropical heat of Mauritius — to [go] in picture-book splendour to the parliament building.’
