The Royal Archive

By popular demand, welcome to your brand new monthly historical newsletter

The late Queen visited Australia 16 times during her lifetime

Happy Saturday, royal clubbers! It’s Millie here, bringing you our first edition of the Royal Archive, where we take you back in time to royal figures, events and moments in the past that have a link to the present.

Thank you very much to Royal Club reader Sue who suggested a historical newsletter! Please do keep your thoughts and ideas coming in the comments – we love hearing from you.

The inspiration behind today’s newsletter is King Charles and Queen Camilla’s royal tour to Australia and Samoa, which kicked off on Friday morning.

King Charles is only the second reigning monarch to set foot on Australian soil, after his mother Queen Elizabeth became the first in 1954.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip pictured on 22nd February 1954 in Canberra after opening the Australian parliament. Prime minister Sir Robert Gordon Menzie is pictured in the background. The Queen wore her coronation gown for the occasion.

Read on for Royal Archive: Inside the royal tours to Australia…