Queen Elizabeth visits London tube station
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STORY: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II turned out on Wednesday (March 20), alongside her husband The Duke of Edinburgh, and her daughter in law, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at Baker Street tube station to celebrate 150 years of the world famous London underground.
She looked well as she talked to members of underground staff after recently canceling a number of engagements because of illness, which is thought to have been gastroenteritis.
Baker street was part of the first Tube line which ran from Paddington to Farringdon, in the center of London, and opened on January 9, 1863. When it opened it was known as the Metropolitan Railway.
During the visit, the royals were shown around the various aspects of the tube station. Highlights for the Queen included meeting a man dressed as the fictitious world renowned 19th century British detective, Sherlock Holmes, whose author, Arthur Conan Doyle, had live in Baker Street. The monarch
STORY: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II turned out on Wednesday (March 20), alongside her husband The Duke of Edinburgh, and her daughter in law, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at Baker Street tube station to celebrate 150 years of the world famous London underground.
She looked well as she talked to members of underground staff after recently canceling a number of engagements because of illness, which is thought to have been gastroenteritis.
Baker street was part of the first Tube line which ran from Paddington to Farringdon, in the center of London, and opened on January 9, 1863. When it opened it was known as the Metropolitan Railway.
During the visit, the royals were shown around the various aspects of the tube station. Highlights for the Queen included meeting a man dressed as the fictitious world renowned 19th century British detective, Sherlock Holmes, whose author, Arthur Conan Doyle, had live in Baker Street. The monarch