In 1983, QueenElizabethII and Prince Philip embarked on a 10-day state visit to California, including visits to Sutter’s Fort in Sacramento and Yosemite Valley, hosted by President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan.
Even in progressive, true egalitarian blue San Francisco, tears were shed as flags were lowered to half-staff over City Hall Thursday to mark the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. No matter one’s persuasion or politics, the stellar, seven-decade reign of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch encompassed a lifetime of exemplary service rooted in a more dignified era.
“I met her and Prince Philip each morning. She was staying in the hotel’s Presidential Suite while the Reagans bunked in the London Suite,” he recalls. “I would determine the particular fish they liked at breakfast. And make sure she received the seven daily newspapers she’d read in a chair, with her legs primly crossed, cover-to-cover.”
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte worked the royal beat with Chronicle society columnist Pat Steger, who scored the Trader Vic’s item: “Pat was so good, she knew all The City’s top maitre d’s. I don’t remember the details, but Pat got the scoop on what the queen ate and the message in her fortune cookie.”
“I knew before we came that we had exported many of our traditions to the United States,” she said to Reagan, according to Reagan Presidential Library & Museum archives. “I had not realized before that weather was one of them.” Tom Horn, honorary consul of Monaco and War Memorial board president, vividly recalls the queen’s experience. And the uncharacteristic royal response.
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