Gurkhas trek to Queen
NZPA-AFP Katmandu Big crowds gave the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh a rousing welcome to Nepal when they arrived for a five-day State visit yesterday, on their way to New Zealand. King Birendra and Queen Aishworya welcomed the Royal couple who were accompanied by the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe. The Queen was the first reigning monarch to visit Nepal, cut off from the outside world by the vast Himalayan mountains and deliberately isolated for centuries by its former rulers, when she visited in 1961.
Unlike its giant south-
em neighbour India, Nepal was never colonised by the British, but special ties date back to 1816, when Britain signed a treaty to recruit Gurkhas, soldiers from the mountains of Nepal who have become famed for their courage and help in guarding the Queen at Buckingham Palace. A highlight of the trip is on Thursday whemthe Queen meets 200 retired Gurkhas, including several holders of Britain’s highest military honour, the Victoria Cross. Some of the old soldiers are taking weeks to walk hundreds of kilometres from their remote mountain villages to see the Queen.
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