http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.queen03may03,0,438049.story?coll=bal-home-headlinesToday, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who has survived her family's countless public scandals and ordeals with the British paparazzi, her reputation intact, will begin her fourth state visit to the United States.
The 81-year-old British monarch will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the English colony at Jamestown, Va., just as her soldier grandson, Prince Henry, prepares to be deployed to Iraq.
The six-day tour will whisk the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, from Richmond to Jamestown to the Kentucky Derby, and then to Washington, when she'll visit Maryland's NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.