Elizabeth II visit to India -Thrice 1961,1983,1997

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The Queen visited India thrice in 1961, 1983 and 1997, but the first visit that came 15 years after India’s Independence-

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip's first visit to India was in 1961, where the royal couple was greeted by both heads of the Indian state. During their trip, the monarch and her consort took a tour of India's most-loved monuments, including the Taj Mahal. During Prince Phillip's lifetime, the two visited India three times: in 1961, 1983 and in 1997—the year the couple visited India to mark the republic's fiftieth anniversary of independence from British rule.

During their first visit, the Queen and Prince Phillip toured Mumbai (then Bombay), Jaipur, Agra, Calcutta and Chennai (then Madras). In Jaipur, the Maharaja of Jaipur hosted the royal couple for a round of hunting, and they were also the guests of honour for that year's Republic Day parade. The people of India came out in record numbers to witness this historic tour, lining the streets to watch the royal processions.

They were Guests of Honour at the Republic Day Parade on the invitation of the then President, Dr 

Rajendra Prasadand an enduring image from the tour shows the Queen addressing a massive crowd of several thousand people packed into Ramlila Grounds in Delhi for her address, dressed in a fur coat and hat. 

In 1983, her visit was in time for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and she famously presented. Queen  met Mother Teresa with an honorary Order of the Merit. During this time Sri Lanka Tamils ethnic issues raised .

Her final visit  1997 to India was to mark the 50th anniversary celebrations of India's Independence and for the first time she made a reference to "difficult episodes" of colonial history. IK. Gujaral was Prime Minister.

 "It is no secret that there have been some difficult episodes in our past. Jallianwala Bagh is a distressing example,” the monarch noted in her banquet address. 

She and her husband later paid a visit to the scene of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar to place a wreath at the memorial, amid widespread calls for an apology for the thousands killed at the orders of a British General during the Raj era. 

That means telling folks in Punjab she will have one glass of mineral water after her visit to the Golden Temple and before she goes to Jallianwala Bagh, 50 yards away.

She will inaugurate a mammoth exhibition of treasures from the British Museum at the capital's National Museum and a large trade exhibition called "Indo-British partnership: towards 2000". As she steps off her BAe-146 jet to when she gets on to leave for home on October 18 from Chennai, she will do everything to showcase Britain.

That's hardly unusual for a businesslike monarchy, and nobody is pretending it is. Except practically everybody at the British High Commission in New Delhi and outposts in Chennai and Mumbai.

That means sending a She will inaugurate a mammoth exhibition of treasures from the British Museum at the capital's National Museum and a large trade exhibition called "Indo-British partnership: towards 2000". As she steps off her BAe-146 jet to when she gets on to leave for home on October 18 from Chennai, she will do everything to showcase Britain.

That's hardly unusual for a businesslike monarchy, and nobody is pretending it is. Except practically everybody at the British High Commission in New Delhi and outposts in Chennai and Mumbai.

She also hosted three Indian presidents – Dr Radhakrishnan in 1963, R. Venkataraman in 1990 and Pratibha Patil 

in 2009.