Queen and Commonwealth: The 1957 Royal Visit to Virginia

Photographs from the 1957 Royal Visit

Photographer’s Gallery During the Royal Visit

Queen Elizabeth II addresses the press and assembled military units at Patrick Henry Airport (now Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport).

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Visit the Susan Constant

Queen Elizabeth II speaks from the balcony of the Christopher Wren Building at the Campus of William and Mary

Queen Elizabeth II Addresses the press and assembled military units at Patrick Henry Airport (Now Newport News/ Williamsburg International Airport)

Queen Elizabeth II addresses the press and assembled military units at Patrick Henry Airport (now Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport). This image is from the Library’s Virginia State Chamber of Commerce photographs, a collection of 31,599 photograph negatives created during the first fifty years of the chamber’s existence.