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The onlookers saw Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, very stylishly dressed disembarking from a Viking aircraft during the stop she made at Nice Airport, while on a flight from London to Malta where she was going to meet the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. She was greeted by local officials. Nice 19.3.1951. - Photo by Edward Quinn

The onlookers saw Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, very stylishly dressed disembarking from a Viking aircraft during the stop she made at Nice Airport, while on a flight from London to Malta where she was going to meet the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. She was greeted by local officials. Nice 19.3.1951.

Princess Elizabeth is greeted by officials upon her arrival at Nice Airport on 19 March 1951. Making a stopover on a flight from London to Malta to meet the Duke of Edinburgh, she looks down with a gentle smile. The Princess wears an elaborate, ruched fabric hat, a double-strand pearl necklace, and a dark coat over a patterned dress, with a brooch in the shape of wings surmounted by a crown pinned to her left lapel.

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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
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