Monarch of the kingdom of the dead6/23/2023 ![]() On the next day, the pair spent four hours in Krakow. In the evening of the first day of the visit in Warsaw, the Queen and the Duke saw a Gala Performance of ‘La Fille Mal Garde’ at the National Theatre in Warsaw. At one moment on the market square, the Queen noticed his absence and exclaimed “Where’s Philip?”Įarlier in Kazimierz, the Duke had been tempted into trying a glass of śliwowica, and then wandered off away from the main tour. The Duke’s antics continued on the last day of the visit in Kraków. Protocol during the carefully planned dinner was broken only once when the Duke wished to be served a Polish beer. ![]() In the evening, the Queen and the Duke were guests of honour at a State Banquet at the Presidential Palace. They suggested that it was best to talk about horses, dogs, the weather and her wellbeing. She knew a lot about the restoration, and she also knew a lot about the furnishings themselves,” Rottermund recalled.Īnother engagement was a visit to the famous Stefan Batory high for a meeting with pupils.īritish embassy officials had turned up early to warn people not to ask about mad cow disease, the Falklands war, Prince Charles' divorce from Diana and other family problems. She was very well prepared for the visit. “You could tell that Queen Elizabeth had talked a lot with Prince Charles about the castle. Prince Charles had previously visited the castle and according to the then director Andrzej Rottermund was deeply interested in the castle’s rebuilding in the wake of the fire at Windsor Castle in 1992. In the Old Town, the Queen opened an exhibition at the Royal Castle named The Eagle and the Lion - 900 years of Polish-British Relations, during which she asked many questions about the castle. The royal couple visited the monument in Skaryszewski Park commemorating at the site where an RAF Liberator crashed in 1944 during a mission to drop supplies for the Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising. She also laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and while in Saxon Garden even found time to plant an oak commemorating the 400th anniversary of Warsaw being Poland’s capital.ĭuring her visit, the Queen took part in a string of engagements, including a speech to the Polish Parliament, which was the first time in Poland’s history that a session of parliament had been broadcast over the Internet. There, she laid a wreath for the victims of the Holocaust. The royal couple’s motorcade then snaked through Warsaw to visit Umschlagplatz, the departure point from which over 300,000 Jews from the ghetto were transported to the Nazi German death camp Treblinka. She has an excellent grasp of politics, which she learned from Winston Churchill." President Kwaśniewski, who was the official host during the visit, said later: “She is a wonderful person, an outstanding personality. The Queen was holding her gloves and her handbag, inside which she had a piece of paper hidden with a transcription of the Polish greeting written on it and managed to produce the Polish tongue-twister without error. Protocol states that after the playing of the anthem when passing in front of the soldiers, those doing the reviewing stop and say ‘czołem żolnierze’. The Queen reviewed the guard with President Kawśniewski and then went inside the talk with the President and First Lady.Īccording to Kwaśniewski, the Queen displayed impressive professionalism. accompanied by her husband Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, she headed straight to the Presidential Palace on Krakowskie Przedmieście, where President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and his wife were waiting. The three-day trip was a reciprocal visit after President Lech Wałęsa made a state visit to the United Kingdom in 1991.Īrriving in Warsaw at Okęcie at 2 p.m. Queen Elizabeth II met several Polish leaders during her 70-year reign, but her first and only visit to Poland in March 1996 stands out as a special memory for the legions of Poles who lined the streets to catch a glimpse of her. “We join in grief with members of the British Royal Family, the British nation and people the world over. "It was with great sadness that we received news of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also tweeted on Thursday that it had learnt of UK head of state Queen Elizabeth's II's death with great sadness. She will be missed and remembered in Poland and all over the world.” ”For decades she has been an embodiment of everything that makes Britain truly Great. In Poland, the country’s president Andrzej Duda said: “My deepest condolences to the Royal Family and all the British people on passing of Her Majesty The Queen. The death of Britain’s longest serving monarch has sent shock waves around the world.
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