However, the British Foreign Office said on Friday it was reviewing whether a royal visit by the Duke of York to Libya, scheduled for September, should now go ahead.
But a Royal visit should help to put the tech cluster on the map, and perhaps make the government's ambitions to turn the area into Europe's rival to Silicon Valley look slightly less fanciful.
She paid a short visit to a Royal Marine base at The Citadel, where she symbolically touched the key to the fortification.
During a visit to the Royal Brompton, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the government would do everything in its power to fully reopen the site as soon as possible.
Despite this liberation the queen remains a passive figure, sought out only if there is a crisis in the Commonwealth, a row over royal finances or a controversial state occasion such as the visit of the much-reviled Japanese Emperor Hirohito in 1971.
The Duke of Edinburgh has presented new colours to 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment during a brief visit to Toronto.
For a period of two decades starting in 1966, Graff says, he traveled to Brunei as frequently as once a month to visit with the royal family, who brought him along to polo matches and gave him an Aston Martin to tool around the kingdom.
But after a school trip to see a much-lauded Royal Shakespeare Company performance of "Richard II, " and a visit to the cinema with classmates to see Stanley Kubrick's controversial " A Clockwork Orange, " his ambitions turned instead to film and theater.
The royal visit was being marked by a fly-past of three Typhoons from RAF Leuchars.
This happened just hours before The Princess Royal arrived for a long-planned celebratory visit.
From there he will visit the King of Thailand and have a royal audience with the King.
The President will begin his visit with a tour of the Wat Pho Royal Monastery, which is one of the iconic religious and cultural sites in Thailand.
The Royal Ballet will give a special gala performance in their first visit to Northern Ireland in over 20 years.
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It is not a state visit and Mr Higgins will not be meeting any members of the Royal Family.
The Queen also visited a learning centre and teaching garden, and planted a Coruns kousa, "Wisley Queen", tree to mark the royal visit.
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On Monday, assembly leader of the Welsh Conservatives Nick Bourne and Clwyd West candidate Darren Millar will visit the Royal British Legion Club in Colwyn Bay to publicise a new armed forces card.
The duke, the first member of the British Royal family to visit New York since the September 11 attacks, met Giuliani as part of a three-day visit to the city.
"Queen Sofia has canceled her visit to the UK for the Jubilee celebrations following the advice from the Spanish government that the visit would be inappropriate in the current circumstances regarding Gibraltar, " a spokesman for the Spanish Royal Household said.
The Royal Navy's newest warship, HMS Dragon, will open to the public this weekend during a visit to Cornwall.
The Queen was scheduled to visit technology firms in London on Wednesday and attend a chapel service on Thursday but other members of the Royal Family will now take her place.
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