MEMORIA
PANAMÁ
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was crowned the 2nd of June of 1953 , a very young queen , an event that was transmitted by television and initiated a new era in the social communications . In 2016 it surpassed 64 years of the “ Victorian era ”, constituting the longest reign of the history of its country .
The recent queen , in a policy never before seen traveling all over the world to visit all the countries of her alliance and all those who could have any relation or interest for the same , in November 1953 arrived in Colon aboard her yacht , The Gothic , who made the journey through the canal while she and the Duke of Edinburgh , already her husband , drove in the distance to Panama City . There she approached the Miraflores locks to explain how the canal worked and see her yacht arrive . No other British monarch had bothered to bond with subjects of the most diverse races , beliefs , and cultures . And Panama was her first destination as queen , once married .
Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh were received in Colon by the President of the Republic , Don Jose Antonio Remón Cantera , and by the Governor of the Canal Zone , John States Seybold , and the keys of the city were given to her . The royal couple dined in the Balboa area and then attended a gala reception at the Club Union , the exclusive club of the powerful families of Panama , at that time located in the Casco Antiguo of Panama , in what would later be the Club de Clases y Tropas .
About midnight that day , she boarded her yacht , where she left for Fiji at 7am , then Autralia .
A la izquierda , los reyes en las esclusas ; a la derecha , en el centro de mando y operaciones del canal
Caravana en Colón rumbo a Panamá
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