Royal visits and royal non-visits

Arnold/Frimet Roth
This Ongoing War
25 November '10
Posted before Shabbat

Since acceeding to the British throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has undertaken (as Wikipedia points out) a huge number of state and official visits as well as trips throughout the Commonwealth. Numbering about 250, they make her probably the most widely travelled monarch in history.

Yesterday, Wednesday, she and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived in Abu Dhabi for a five-day state visit to the Gulf including two-days in sunny Oman ("to join the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Sultan Qaboos's ascension to the throne").

This report, a small and - without wishing to be unkind - not terribly weighty bit of news, got us thinking about which countries the Queen has visited, and which not. Also: what those visits are intended to say to the people of the United Kingdom as well as to the people of the countries she visits.

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