As King Charles III visited Northern Ireland for the first time as the new head of state on Tuesday, we had a look at when Queen Elizabeth II visited Derry for the first time.
Cheers broke out from the crowd of thousands of people in Hillsborough on September 13 as the King's cavalcade of vehicles arrived in the village.
The King and Camilla, Queen Consort, also travelled to St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast where they attended a service of reflection for the life of the Queen.
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However, before her long 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II first visited Northern Ireland as a 19-year-old princess on July 17 1945. The future Queen's tour was her first by aircraft as part of a "Victory Tour" of the UK after World War Two.
Her Late Majesty The Queen travelled with her parents King George VI and her mother Queen Elizabeth as they flew into Long Kesh airstrip, near Belfast.
The Royal visitors later sailed to Derry where they saw some of the 62 surrendered German U-boats anchored in the River Foyle, before American Soldiers lined the street close to the Guildhall awaiting their arrival from the then Princes Quay.
Queen Elizabeth II first came to Northern Ireland as monarch in 1953, just a month after her coronation - again visiting Derry with her husband Prince Phillip to plant a tree in Brooke Park.
It would be the last time she would visit Derry until 2001 due to growing tensions in Northern Ireland. Visiting the Maydown Ebrington Centre alongside Northern Ireland First Minister, David Trimble, and deputy First Minister, Mark Durkan.
The then Head of State would go on to visit across the country on numerous occasions, including a visit to the Univerisity of Ulster campus in Coleraine in 2007, Lisneal College and Altnagelvin Hospital in 2009, before her final journey through the county in 2016 when she took a steam train through Coleraine and Bellarena.
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