WITH The Queen poised to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee in 2022 we have looked back at her strong affinity with the county over the past 70 years. The Queen’s early official visits to Wiltshire began on November 15, 1950 with a trip to Swindon for the Borough’s Jubilee celebrations. The Queen visited the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in Warminster on May 4, 1984, and inspected the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on June 24, 1988. The Queen returned to Swindon on October 23 1998 to open the new £82 million Motorola manufacturing facility in Groundwell. The visit was the Queen’s first outside a royal residence since the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic began.

Source: The Times December 26, 2021 12:46 UTC