Queen Elizabeth II: Royal visits to the West Midlands in pictures

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Queen Elizabeth II receives flowers from members of the public in Victoria Square during her Diamond Jubilee visit to the City on July 12, 2012 in BirminghamImage source, Getty Images
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The Queen drew large crowds on her visit to Birmingham during her Diamond Jubilee tour in 2012

Queen Elizabeth II regularly visited the West Midlands across the course of her life and her visits often drew thousands of people.

They included touring Coventry Cathedral a few years after her Coronation and several stops in her Silver Jubilee tour in 1977.

In 2012, the Queen travelled across the region on her Diamond Jubilee Tour.

Large crowds turned out for those visits including in Hereford, Cosford and Birmingham.

The Queen also had a close connection with the National Memorial Arboretum, in Staffordshire, laying wreaths on several occasions at the site.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit Hereford Cathedral on July 11, 2012 in Hereford, England. The visit is part of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's Diamond Jubilee tourImage source, Getty Images
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On the same Diamond Jubilee tour, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Hereford Cathedral

Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to Solihull during her Silver Jubilee tour, 27th July 1977Image source, Mirrorpix/Getty Images
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The Queen also toured large parts of the country during her Silver Jubilee tour in 1977, including Solihull

Queen Elizabeth II lays a wreath during a visit to the National Memorial Arboretum to attend a service of thanksgiving to mark the return of soldiers from the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry after a five-month tour of duty in Afghanistan's Helmand province on July 20, 2011 in StaffordshireImage source, Getty Images
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The Queen visited the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, on several occasions to lay wreaths

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the old Cathedral in Coventry, 23rd March 1956Image source, Mirrorpix/Getty Images
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One of the Queen's earliest trips to the West Midlands, as monarch, came in 1956 when she and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the old Coventry Cathedral

Queen Elizabeth II speaks to Romeo and Juliet actors, Sam Troughton (L) and Mariah Gale during her visit to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre on March 4, 2011 in Stratford-upon-Avon,Image source, Getty Images
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When the Queen came to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2011, she met actors Sam Troughton (left) and Mariah Gale

Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, touring through the grounds of the Royal Show surrounded by visitors, farmers and pigs, Shrewsbury, England, July 7th 1949.Image source, Getty Images
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Before she became monarch, Princess Elizabeth toured the grounds of Shrewsbury's Royal Show in 1949, surrounded by farmers and pigs

The Queen Holding A Nosegay ( Posy Of Flowers ) At The Maundy Service, Worcester in 1980Image source, Getty Images
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The Queen came to Worcester in 1980 for the city's Maundy Service where she gave out Maundy money in the traditional coin-giving service at the cathedral

Queen Elizabeth II visits the showroom of the Johnson Brothers china factory in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, during a tour of the Midlands, 2nd November 1955.Image source, Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Staffordshire is famed for its Potteries and on a visit to Stoke-on-Trent in 1955, the Queen was shown around the Johnson Brothers china factory

Queen Elizabeth II meets the public during a walkabout in Stafford on March 31, 2006.Image source, Anwar Hussein Collection/ROTA/WireImage
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People have always turned out in large numbers for a visit by the monarch, including this one in Stafford in 2006

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