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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