The times the Queen visited the North East and Cumbria

Queen Elizabeth II visited the North East and Cumbria for many significant occasions during her reign.

Her first visit was two years after she became Queen.

On subsequent visits she opened the Tyne and Wear Metro, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge and the Tees Barrage.

And among her visits to Cumbria was to mark her Golden Jubilee in 2002.