Editor’s note: With news of Queen Elizabeth II being placed under medical supervision because doctors are “concerned for Her Majesty’s health,” we are...
Editor’s note: With news of Queen Elizabeth IIwe are republishing a story about her trip to Texas 31 years ago. The late Jeffrey Weiss reported on the royal visit to Dallas, first published on May 22, 1991.
About 175 demonstrators, most of them black, chanted: “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!’ The queen was whisked inside for a reception and dinner.Uniformed police, some on horseback, kept an eye on the protesters but did not impede their movement inside Fair Park and on Martin Luther King Boulevard outside.The role of the modern British monarch is not to rule but to play a role. And the queen and her husband did just that on their first visit to the city.
That didn’t stop the queen. Apparently voice projection is part of the imperial training. Most of the 250 guests heard her majesty clearly enough to laugh at the right parts of her brief speech. Christopher Aguado, 12, explained his interest in the queen matter-of-factly. “She came, we saw her, and we got out of school,” he said.
As the queen moved down the receiving line along a red carpet -- dressed in a bright blue floral dress and her trademark hat and white gloves -- 7-year-old Jasmine Evans presented her with a yellow and blue flower bouquet.“In my teacher’s book, she had black hair,’ she said. Inside, a nearly full house of more than 2,000 people waited as the Dallas Wind Symphony performed. Dress for the afternoon concert ranged from off-the-shoulder formal to just-came-from-work pantsuits. About two dozen woman wore hats in obvious homage to the queen’s preference for chapeaus.
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