Picture gallery: Jubilee tour

The Queen has embarked on a 15-week tour of the UK to mark her Golden Jubilee. The tour began on 1 May in the West Country.

The crowds in Falmouth were the first to greet the Queen on her Jubilee tour

The royal couple saw the yacht "Bluebottle", which was given to them as a wedding present

The Monarch officially named Falmouth's new lifeboat, the "Robert Cox Scott"

The royal couple then boarded the lifeboat for a tour of the harbour

The crew of the Prince William gave the Queen 'three cheers' from the mast

Children from the Scilly Isles performed a traditional maypole dance

In Exeter a young girl was one of a long line of flower-bearers

The Queen, and the crowds, found plenty to smile about on the first day of the tour