In pictures: The Queen's visits to the East of England

From trips to Newmarket to enjoy her passion for horseracing to various formal engagements, the Queen was a regular visitor to the East of England. Here is a selection of photographs taken throughout her reign.

Crowds of fans greet the then Princess Elizabeth as she walks the streets of Northampton, on her way to open the General Hospital and Grendon Hall in 1946

Accompanied by Sir Francis Whitmore, Lord Lieutenant of Essex, the Queen visits Tilbury, Essex, which was affected by flooding in 1953

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh with composer Benjamin Britten at the opening ceremony of the Snape Maltings Concert Hall near Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1967

In 1970, the Queen met US President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon with Prime Minister Edward Heath at Chequers in Buckinghamshire

The Queen with her racehorse Highclere, after the horse won the 1000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket in May 1974

The Queen visited the centenary show of National Shire Horses Society in Peterborough in 1978

The new terminal at Stansted Airport, Essex, was opened by the Queen on 15 March 1991

Then in 1999, another new terminal was opened, this time at Luton Airport

The Queen visited the new Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge in 2000

She greeted people waving union flags during a walkabout in Kettering, Northamptonshire in June 2001

The Queen met two students both wearing red noses for Comic Relief Day at North Hertfordshire College in Stevenage, in March 2003

Students took photos on their mobile phones of the Queen as she arrived at the Samuel Whitbread Community College in Bedford, in November 2006

The Queen chatted to Vera Smith, from Stetchworth, Suffolk, during a visit to the hairdressers of the Newmarket Day Centre in 2011

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh with an elephant at Whipsnade Zoo, where they officially opened its new Centre for Elephant Care during a visit to Bedfordshire in April 2017

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