Royal Special: The Queen and Prince Philip in British Hong Kong (1986)

[@taotao98103]

I was there in Hong Kong, at that shopping mall with a musical fountain. I was able to meet her personally.

[@dannylove7507]

The people of Hong Kong truly miss the Queen and her reign 😢

[@friedrich458]

搞得好像香港人生不如死一样，真搞笑，走的人都是有一定资产或者有教育的，你让真正的底层来说说看？

[@jazibee8269]

​@@friedrich458we don't use simplified chinese in Hong Kong. Imposter.

[@friedrich458]

@@jazibee8269 但是你说粤语，装什么外宾呢，我不是篡位者，是英王自己把香港归还了，搞得像英王不是篡夺者一样

[@tiffhung84]

@@friedrich458 你咪問下D底層香港人想英國統治定中國統治囉, 只怕到時唔係你想見到既答案

[@Underoos-sf8lm]

@@jazibee8269 sounds like KZbin was invented by Hongkong people. People can use whatever language they want, those just charecters, stop being two faces infront of Chinese and Englishmen.

[@KrissCunningham]

Fantastic footage. Thank you. As a person with a great interest in Chinese, and Hong Kong history, and after living in HK for a few years, this was wonderful to watch.

[@stephenscott6639]

Wonderful! These extra long, vintage and rare videos of the Queens overseas state visits are great! 👍🏻 more please!😁 I’d love to see when she went to Sweden 1983, Hungary 1993 and France 1992.

[@ITNArchive]

Stand by for a special upload tomorrow to mark the beginning of the King's visit to Kenya!

[@taotao98103]

"You have been promised, the institutions, traditions, and the way of life, so important to the people of Hong Kong will be preserved". The promised is broken, Sino-British declaration is broken, Queen is dead.

[@georgiaguardian4696]

Chinese now tell the world those agreements are merely historical documents.

[@MrConan89]

The way of life for the average HK person is still the same. I lived there 27 years and go back at least twice a year.

[@barrymcmanmon9595]

HK under the jackboot.

[@aaroncarter99hk]

miss the Queen..she was a very elegant and decent person.

[@MrConan89]

It makes you proud to be British. Lived in HK from 1975 to 2002.

[@fredcarrillo9771]

I’m surprised she really gave an autograph not protocol for a Queen 👸🏼 but lucky family

[@Justina0318]

Watched it again today, I teared out at the end, a very valuable record

[@GeordiePat1]

Totally agree. Love these videos❤

[@Bombastic_side_eye6789]

You know how bad the current government is when people voluntarily want to be colonised again😭

[@DanielSadjadian]

I've always wondered about that. Do the people of Hong Kong prefer Chinese rule or do they prefer British rule?

[@DanielSadjadian]

Fascinating video, lovely old footage. How times have changed.

[@heavenly.psycho]

0:38 is it a coincidence or special editing I find this moment intriguing 🤔 the strangled hands and shivering

[@taotao98103]

Interestingly enough, they played "Empire strikes back" during the firework. The Empire did not strike back.

[@mldaltorio]

I photographed her during this visit... I treasure it.

[@eugene7145]

Hi, is there a similar video for the 1975 Queen's visit to Hong Kong?😇

[@anneharton5013]

Hong Kong will never be the same.

[@c_cma1971]

Hello from Bucharest, Romania- a huge underrated city in Europe:)

[@Flyinghigh888]

@7:10 Then British Governor of Hong Kong Sir Edward Youde died in Beijing not long after this filming, December 1986.

[@dchui3811]

People who say that there was no alternative to the handover should be generous enough to see that the colonial subjects living there, despite being of Chinese ancestry and living on a ‘leased land’, were also British subjects none the less than any citizen of Britain. Yes, Hong Kong’s handover was inevitable, but Britain did more than negotiating HK away, to make sure that they don’t have an influx of their former colonial subjects escaping a post handover Hong Kong. The UK actively stripped them of their full UK citizenship and replaced it with first a British Dependent Territory Citizenship followed by a British National (Overseas) status at the handover. Hong Kong was the only Overseas Territory singled out in British legislation whose native born citizen have no claim to UK citizenship. In anticipation of the handover, they were relegated to second class, then ‘overseas’ non citizens and lost their claim to citizenship rights on British soil despite being born British. The UK saw the oppression coming, and wanted to washed their hands of it. They put in place safeguards to make sure Hong Kong’s problem didn’t become Britain’s problem after the handover. In contrast; every citizen of nearby Macau remained full Portuguese citizen after the handover. China no doubt negotiated in bad faith and breached their promise, but in it was in a much more insidious and heinous way the UK sold out the people of Hong Kong, their own people.

[@drjamesallen6012]

I don’t see how a Chinese can ever call himself “British”, it’s unthinkable! Do you reckon you look like us in any way?

[@jacobkeppler1984]

Gurkhas rifles are the guard of honour 💂🇬🇧

[@jasminechen2763]

Beautiful time

[@davehue9517]

When Hong Kong had hope and prosperity..... how quickly it disappeared since July 1, 1997

[@H.A.T.E_C.H.I.N.K_Lyncher_SB]

When Hong Kong was truly Hong Kong😢

[@audreyb8903]

❤❤❤❤

[@realjohnboxall]

Glory to Hong Kong!

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

God Save The Queen and God Save British Hong Kong!

[@sinhanggodfreylai6663]

good old days

[@ManofTruth999]

I'd forgotten all about the Queen's visit to HK, and took my little son in his pushchair to do some shopping in the supermarket on Waterloo Road. As I came round the corner I noticed that all of the street traders had been cleared away and that there were many people lining the streets. Looking down the street, I saw a limousine moving slowly towards us. Indeed this was the Queen's entourage and I saw her waving as the car went by. Rather nondescript really, and hardly exciting. I never saw her again after that. In 1997, everything was handed back to China, along with all those street traders that I knew. Since then, everything has turned to dust!. So what was the point of her visit? .Sir Edward Youde, the HK Governor died whilst on a visit to Beijing, and I played Flowers of the Forest on the bagpipes on hearing of his death. I knew Pipe Major Gurung of the Gurkha Pipe Band who often played at Gun Club Barracks on Sunday afternoons. HK was a great place to be in the 1980s. Not such a good place to be now!

[@walterclaycooke]

The imperial rule of England looks pretty good compared to the imperial rule of China. Very unfortunate that England could not have refused China’s’s demand for the return of Hong Kong.

[@davidphatty9083]

Good good old days

[@heavenly.psycho]

@8:03 I despise this guy. Check his status (nationality and assets) nowadays then u know which administration he is more comfortable with😒

[@georgiaguardian4696]

This guy is a trash. A fine reason of why Hong Kong has fallen - seeking money but nothing else.

[@馮子淇]

輝煌年代

[@ccchan3878]

How sad HK is right now.

[@MrConan89]

Why do you say that? I still visit twice a year and it is still a great place. Only folks like you and the BBC try to paint a grim and untrue picture,

[@taotao98103]

I don't know why they showed fan dance to the royal family. That's the Northern Chinese culture. Hong Kong's culture is Southern Chinese which is totally different. Even the people of Hong Kong don't feel like it's their culture. Even the lions in the lion dance are Northern Chinese lions. Not from Hong Kong.

[@LKSimonTsang]

There used to be an event every year called Hong Kong Festival. Every school in the colony prepares very hard for the show. I believe they're the same student. By the time, girls would have been trained for fan dancing, while boys for lion dancing. The lion dance is simple compared to the local one which includes a lot of skills that are hard to do. I recall our teachers told us we could be asked to go Singapore to perform as well but never happened:'(

[@litkfung4469]

UK left colony born citizen behind in 1997。and change the immigration law many times since late 60s to avoid the colony Hong Kong citizen settle in UK in case something happen 。my british passport status was BDTC to BNO。a piece of trash。So shame Macau return to China in 1999 but ALL macau citizen who born before handed over were got the real Portugese citizenship passport !

[@tupouakau8983]

The Capetower 🌲 🌲 🌲.

[@jamiew6438]

Did the Queen sail all the way there from the UK?

[@BalderasRosado]

No , only the Hong Kong to China ports trip

[@megankumamoto3645]

25:04

[@georgebarakan8919]

11:50 Jackie Chan

[@rafif549]

I noticed that too! Is that really him??

[@IanMackellen77]

11:50....Jacky Chan???

[@DanielSadjadian]

Certainly looks like him.

[@deviritter5232]

It’s weird to see this old guy at 62, the queen at 60. I’m 60 - they look so old. I used to live in Hong Kong in the early’90s. Loved it there. Terrible to see what China has done to the place. That governor really let the people down. The Brits lied to the people about what was in the agreement. Typical of Britain to screw places up on their way out - So arrogant and indifferent. I sat on a bus while an old woman, likely 60 or so, loudly referred to the people on the bus as “these monkeys” grrr. The bus driver gripped the wheel, the people all around clearly set their teeth and stared straight ahead, while this insufferable old woman carried on loudly. I turned and ignored her. Love the Queen nevertheless. And this news report brings back lots of fond memories.

[@positivepessimist6853]

Interestingly, Sir Edward Youde, the 62 year old governor you mention, died only two months after this visit, from a heart attack.

[@deviritter5232]

That promise wasn’t worth much, was it? GB really burned the citizens of Hong Kong.

[@taotao98103]

Burned, Abandoned, betrayal, you name it.

[@kongthemayor5481]

That promise was for China to hold, not the UK.

[@georgiaguardian4696]

China threatened to destroy Hong Kong if not giving it to them. Then Chinese destroyed it.

[@sodadrinker89]

The British negotiated in good faith, the Chinese did not. Blame China.

[@jamesb6080]

No, China destroyed Honk Kong. Honk Kong thrived under the British. China then destroyed it.

[@habf1]

Glade the colonial era was over! We truly didnt have much free dom under the British rule.

[@kill_urself]

now you have less freedom

[@kizukinaoko]

We have literally no freedom under the nowadays hk government