by !Baha, 8 May 2007

It’s the 400th year anniversary of Great Britain’s settlement in Jamestown Virginia (where Native American Princess - Pocahontas - married and returned to England with her English husband in 1616) and to mark the occasion Queen Elizabeth II of England has made a historic week-long visit to her former colony, America.

(Click the Pocahontas link above to read about how George Bush was once believed to be a descendant of Pocahontas!)

The Queen - a passionate horse-woman - raised the bar at famed horse-y event, the American KENTUCKY DERBY earlier this week and fulfilled a life-long dream by attending the festivities there for the first time in her life, very much hatted up, as is the custom.

In another first, BBC NEWS reports that this royal visit “is the Queen’s first carbon-offset state visit, where a donation is made to an environmental charity to offset the plane journeys made by the royal party.”

FOR more about:

THE QUEEN’S FIRST CARBON-OFFSET STATE VISIT

Total air miles - 13,317 km or 8,275 miles
Amount of CO2 emitted based on scheduled flights - 1.5 tonnes
Estimated offset cost per person - £13.20 to £14.18 ($26.22-$28.17) depending on type of offset package [Source: The Carbon Neutral Company carbon calculator]

… CLICK HERE for original article on BBC NEWS - The tour is the Queen's first carbon-offset state visit ...

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