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You are right it is too bad about the fog and rain. They had a great fly by planned and had to cancel it.
The Queen is one tough old girl, the weather really was bad that day and she was out in it for most of it.
I was in the industrial park that looks down and across the Bedford Basin and to see the ships was probably as close to the days of the convoys as you would get.
As a Trustee of HMCS Sackville, Canada's Naval Memorial, I was invited to meet HM when she visited the ship to unviel a plaque after the Fleet Review. We assembled on the South jetty at the Maritime Museum in Halifax and she arrived aboard HMCS St Johns to disembark there when the Review was completed. The woman is amazing. At age 84, at the nether end of long day (it was late afternoon), she seemed tireless. When she talked to one of us, that person was, to her, the most fascinating person she had ever met and what he said was the most intreresting thing she had ever heard!
I am an unabashed Monarchist, having taken the Oath of loyalty on enlistment in the Service at age 16, and my admiration for my Monarch increased expotentially on that brief encounter.
