Madras’s tryst with royalty dates back to 1961 when the Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh’s visited Madras on February 19. It was the first visit by the reigning british monarch to the south.
People lined the streets from the airport at Meenambakkam to the centre of town in hundreds and thousands as the newspapers of that time reported. A general holiday was declared in both Madras and Bangalore
They were received at the Rajaji Hall in the erstwhile Government Estate by a high power delegation of statesmen led by C Subramaniam, the finance minister, Dr P V Cherian, chairman of the Madras Legislative Council, Dr U Krishna Rao, speaker of the legislative assembly, and R Venkataraman, minister of industries at that time along with the then Chief minister K.Kamaraj
Source:Timesofindia
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