When Barbados welcomed the Queen

Queen Elizabeth II visited Barbados six times during her 70-year reign.

Apart from her royal visits, many Barbadians either working in The UK or living here also got a chance to meet the Queen at her Buckingham Palace residence in Britain.

Queen Elizabeth II is greeted by Barbados leader, Errol Walton Barrow.

In February 1966, the Queen, along with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, toured Barbados, opening Barclays Park, on the East Coast in St Andrew. During her 1975 visit, the Queen knighted Barbadian cricketing genius Sir Garfield Sobers in an open-air investiture before a crowd of 50,000 at the Garrison Savannah.

The Queen returned for her Silver Jubilee in 1977. After addressing the new session of Parliament, she departed on the Concorde, which was the Queen’s first supersonic flight.

On October 28th, 1985, the Barbados Museum & Historical Society had the distinct pleasure of hosting Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip.

She also was in Barbados in 1989, to mark the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the Barbados Parliament, where she received addresses from both houses.

Her other visit was pre-Independence. (BT)