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Slovaks welcome Queen to capital | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
The Queen received a traditional Slovak welcome when she arrived in the capital Bratislava in a continuation of her four-day state visit to central Europe. | |
The monarch was presented with a gift of salt and bread by a couple dressed in national costume. | |
Afterwards, President Ivan Gasparovic showed her around the presidential palace where an 80-strong guard of honour gave her a military salute. | |
She is also due to meet Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sir Nicholas Winton. | |
The Queen was dressed in a red outfit as she inspected the guard of honour on her first trip to the country. | |
'Britain's Schindler' | |
The soldiers shouted "glory" during the military salute in honour of the royal guest. | |
The monarch is due to meet Sir Nicholas Winton at Devin Castle along with some of the 670 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia whom he rescued before World War II. | |
The 99-year-old, known as "Britain's Schindler", saved them by transporting them back to Britain. | |
He made the trip to Slovakia especially to meet the Queen near the border where he smuggled the children to safety. | |
The Queen arrived in Slovakia accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and Foreign Secretary David Miliband. | |
The visit followed a two-day tour of Slovenia where the Queen, a keen equestrian, was presented with a Lipizzaner horse. |