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October 23rd, 2011 
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After a morning church service in Canberra, the Queen has attended a lunch at Government House, where one of the guests will be Australian Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush.
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh joined Canberra worshippers at the historic St John’s Church, which was established 70 years before Canberra itself.
The Queen wore yellow today for her sixth visit to the historic church.
There were about 120 people in the specially-invited congregation, including Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.
On arrival, she was greeted by hundreds of well-wishers, many carrying bouquets of flowers.
After the service the Queen received three cheers from the crowd as she accepted flowers from children, and greeted those who had been waiting in the sun.
Waiting to see the Queen was Amelia Lilibet Ritchie, 7, who flew from Sydney with her father Paul.
Her father Paul said Amelia was given the middle name Lilibet, which is Queen Elizabeth’s family name.
“We heard the name on TV and thought it was beautiful so we gave her that name,” he said.
“Amelia said ‘can I see the Queen’ so I thought we had better come down – she will have some good show and tell at school tomorrow.”
Canberra residents Margaret and Harold Fryor were 19-year-old newlyweds when they camped out overnight in Sydney’s Botanic Gardens to see the Queen on her first visit to Australian in 1954.
“She was wearing white and drove past us and waved, it was lovely,” Mrs Fryor recalled.
“There’s nothing like following royalty.”
University student Jessica Ward said she had been following the Queen around the capital for the past of couple days.
“With the royal wedding, I think everyone has fallen in love with the monarchy all over again,” she said.
Royal luncheon
After the church service the royal couple returned to Government House, where Governor-General Quentin Bryce hosted a lunch for 50 guests in their honour.
The guests represent a wide cross-section of Australian society, including figures from sport, the arts and the community sector.
The founder of the Addis Abbaba Fistula Hospital, Dr Catherine Hamlin, attended, as did Rush, who played the monarch’s father’s speech therapist in the 2010 movie The King’s Speech.
Paralympian Kurt Fearnley, the 30-year-old marathon man of wheelchair sports, who crawled the Kokoda Track in 2009, and his wife Sheridan also were at the invitation-only lunch.
The Royal couple have been enjoying a warm response from the public during a series of engagements including yesterday’s garden party at Duntroon, following the Royal Military College’s Presentation of Colours ceremony.
The Duke of Endinburgh also hosted a reception for the Commonwealth Studies Conference yesterday evening.
After today’s events, the Queen and Prince Philip will prepare for a trip to Brisbane on Monday where they will attend a reception for people who were affected by the floods and cyclone last summer.
Their final day in Canberra will on Tuesday, after which they visit Melbourne on Wednesday before flying in the afternoon to Perth.
ABC/AAP
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