[3] The Duke opened the first session of the Gambian Parliament, on behalf of the Queen, and gave the speech from the throne on 18 February.

The monarchial form of government was protected under an "entrenched" provision of the Gambian constitution.

[1] The Queen said in her Christmas broadcast in 1958, that she and her husband would be visiting the Gambia in late 1959.

[9] During the visit, the people of the village of Berending in the Gambia gave the Queen a two-year-old crocodile in a pierced silver biscuit-box as a present for infant Prince Andrew.

[10] The Queen's Private Secretary Sir Martin Charteris volunteered to keep it in his bath for the rest of the trip.