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
A Belgian airman is killed over Jersey
- St Ouen’s Rue Henri Gonay was given its name in June 2014 in honour of a Belgian airman who died when his plane crashed in Jersey.
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Batterie Moltke’s namesake dies
- When German forces built defensive structures on the Channel Islands during the occupation, they gave several former military leaders’ names.
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Holiday pioneer Billy Butlin dies in Jersey
- Billy Butlin’s name will forever be tied to a certain type of British holiday. He moved to Jersey later in life, where he died.
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Plane catches fire on take-off from Jersey
- G-CEXF, a Fokker F27 plane on its fourth flight of the day, caught fire just 400ft above the runway as it took off from Jersey Airport.
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