
On This Day | Naval guns, crowds welcome Queen Elizabeth to Hong Kong in 1975 – from the SCMP archive
This article was first published on May 5, 1975 To the boom of welcoming naval guns firing a Royal salute and the skirl of Gurkha pipers, the Queen was yesterday welcomed to Hong Kong as she sailed across Fragrant Harbour. Amid waving flags and beneath the skyscrapers of Hong Kong and Kowloon, the Queen and…