In the present day, on April 21, 2026, it could have marked the late Queen’s one hundredth birthday

In the present day (April 21) would have been the late Queen’s one hundredth birthday. On the age of 96, Queen Elizabeth II sadly died at Balmoral. All through her 70-year-reign it was responsibility first, and fortuitously for us in Cambridgeshire, Her Majesty visited the town of Cambridge many occasions.

The Queen made her first official go to to Cambridge as monarch in 1955. On October 20, 1955, Her Majesty visited the town to open the College of Cambridge’s new Veterinary College, which now sits on Madingley Street. In 1962, the Queen returned to Cambridge to open the Addenbrooke’s Hospital website on Hills Street and in 2013, she returned to open the Rosie Hospital.

In between these years, Queen Elizabeth II made one other go to to Cambridge the place she opened the Sainsbury Laboratory on the Cambridge University Botanic Backyard in 2011.

In 2019, Cambridge residents had been wanting to catch a glimpse of Her Royal Highness on an official go to to the town. She began her tour with a visit to the Nationwide Institute of Agricultural Botany in Histon the place she planted a tree.

On the identical go to, she then unveiled a plaque on the Royal Papworth Hospital to formally open it after it had been moved 16-miles from the village of Papworth Everard to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Cambridge was not the one space of Cambridgeshire that was lucky sufficient to have been visited by Her Majesty – she additionally visited locations together with in Ely, Duxford and Peterborough.

In 1973, Ely Cathedral reached its thirteenth centenary and Queen Elizabeth II visited the town to participate within the celebrations. She additionally gave her blessing for Ely to stay a metropolis through the native authorities reorganisation within the early Seventies.

The Queen visited the centenary present of Nationwide Shire Horses Society in Peterborough in 1978.

In 1997, the American Air Museum was hosted by Queen Elizabeth II when the gathering at Duxford opened. The museum was rededicated in 2002, in a ceremony attended by former President George H.W Bush and the now King Charles III.