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The Queen of England came to Virginia, where her nation's first successful American settlement was founded 400 years ago. "A frenzied commonwealth gussied itself up for the Queen," NBC's Bob Faw found. "Bells were rung. Breastplates were polished. Matchlock muskets fired." CBS' Mark Phillips noted that she described the settlement as an intersection of three great civilizations: western European, native American and African. He called it "not quite an apology" for expropriation and slavery but "something very close--an unprecedented recognition that American diversity started at the very beginning of American history."
ABC's Nick Watt observed that Jamestown and Williamsburg are all very well, but the royal heart is set on the sport of kings: "She is a lifelong fan of horse racing." On Saturday Elizabeth will be at Churchill Downs "fulfilling her dreams" of a flutter. True to his London base, Watt pronounced the race as the Kentucky "Darby."
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