Who remembers this visit by the Queen to Portsmouth in 1980? | Nostalgia
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It only seems like yesterday but this trip down memory lane was actually 42 years ago.
Doesn’t seem possible does it?
It was the year a very young-looking Queen unveiled the friendship links in Old Portsmouth, the sculpture which so baffles many visitors to this day – until they read the explanation!
or why not expand your memory to the whole of the 1980s…
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