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Grand reception for President Patil at Windsor Castle |
The reception ceremony organized in honour of President Pratibha Devisingh Patil
by Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle was filled with all royal grandeur. Prince
Charles at the royal dais received the Indian president, who arrived along with
her husband Dr Devi Singh Sekhawat. She then met the Queen and the Duke of
Edinburgh.
President Patil and her husband accompanied by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
then arrived in a carriage procession at Quadrangle of Windsor Castle with a sovereign's
Escort of the Household Calvary. This was the second meeting between President
Patil and Queen Elizabeth II. President Patil met the Queen for the first time
in the late eighties as the Deputy Chairperson Rajya Sabha. The King's Royal Horse
Artillery gave a royal salute to the visiting Indian President. President Patil
became the first non-royal to stay at the Windsor Castle. She will receive the
Commonwealth baton from the Queen at a grand function in Buckingham Palace on
Wednesday. President Patil wants to take India-UK relations to a new level since
the two countries entered into a strategic partnership in 2004. This the first
visit by an Indian President to the UK in two decades. |
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