Their Majesties bid good-bye at Port Said, 1911 (b/w photo)

King George V and Queen Mary visited Port Said on their way to India for the Coronation Durbar in 1911; They arrived on November 20 of that year and greeted various Egyptian and Turkish dignitaries aboard the royal yacht on which they were travelling, H.M.S. Medina; The man on the left of the photo, waiting to bid farewell to King George is Abbas II (1874-1944), the last Khedive of Egypt; Lord Kitchener (1850-1916), then British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt and Kamil Pasha (1833-1913) an ex-Grand Vizier of Turkey are in the background standing behind Queen Mary;