Chapter 25 (Part 1) The Queen’s Visit 1954 1953 ... Quite an eventful year for the Commonwealth. The young Princess Elizabeth was crowned Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth. This was 8 years after the end of World War II. Britain together with the Allies had won the war against Nazi German, but the financial cost to the country was devastating. So, a bit of pomp and ceremony was sorely needed .... and Britain came through in magnificent form. No sooner were the plans for the honeymoon announced .... when the then wet blanket (now gratefully buried) Franco clamped down mercilessly on the Frontier. No more passes were to be issued to any new workers coming into Gib from Spain as from the date when the Queen dared to step on the “Spanish soil” of Gibraltar! This actually was a punitive measure which hurt the Campo are far more that it hurt Gib. It was the prequel of the withdrawing of such passes to women workers …and ultimatel...