22nd June 1949
Princess Elizabeth visits Jersey
Princess Elizabeth, who would later become Queen Elizabeth II, visited Jersey on 22 June 1949 as part of a wider trip to the Channel Islands. She arrived, with Prince Philip, from Alderney on HMS Anson, and landed at St Helier. It was the first time either of them had stepped foot on the island.
Coming shortly after the end of the occupation, the future queen’s speech to the States of Jersey reminded members that “in recent times the men and women of Jersey have undergone trials and privations unequalled in the island’s long history” but that “the spirit of the Channel Islanders was unbroken and they lost neither faith nor hope”.
They spent the afternoon visiting Howard Davis Park.
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Other events that occured in June
Mother is banished from Jersey for being unmarried
- The States of Jersey banished Portuguese Maria Batista from the island for being the unmarried mother of a boy born prematurely.
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Jersey refugee Hedy Bercu is born
- The story of Hedwig Goldberg, known as Hedy Bercu, is one of the most extraordinary to come out of the German occupation of Jersey.
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Laura Kennington completes three-island triathlon
- Adventurer Laura Kennington undertook one of the most demanding – and unusual – triathlons ever to be hosted in the Channel Islands.
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French fishermen occupy Minquiers
- The arrival of a troupe of French fishermen on Maitresse Ile, the largest of the Minquiers Islands, was hardly a surprise.
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