Editorial News of Thursday, 20 May 1999

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Daily Graphic, Ghanaian Times & Free Press

Three papers, the Daily Graphic, Ghanaian Times and Free Press, feature the impending visit to Ghana by Queen Elizabeth of Britain.

While the Graphic and the Free Press give a front-page treatment to the story the Times finds a space for the story in an inside page. The Free Press says Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, arrives in Accra from London on Sunday, November 7, for a tow-day state visit.

The Graphic reports that Queen Elizabeth II of Britain will pay a three-day state visit to Ghana in November, this year. Her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, will accompany her.

The Graphic quotes a press release from the British High Commission in Accra yesterday as saying the royal couple will arrive in Accra from London n Sunday November 7, and stay till November 9.

The Times? account has it that Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom will pay a three-day state visit to Ghana from November 7 to nine.

The paper says separate press releases issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the British High Commission in Accra yesterday, said the queen is expected to arrive from London on Sunday, November 7 and stay in Ghana until the morning of Tuesday, November 9.

It says the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, her husband, will be in her company. From Ghana, the Queen will pay a state visit to South Africa before opening the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Durban. She will also visit Mozambique, the only non-Commonwealth country she has not visited previously, before returning home, the Times says, adding the Queen first visited Ghana in November, 1961.