The Queen greets well-wishers in Tallinn, Estonia, at the end of her four-day tour of the Baltic states. More than 10,000 people packed into a picturesque square in Estonia's capital, Tallinn, to catch a glimpse of the monarch despite the cold weather. On board HMS Liverpool, the Queen met Estonian servicemen heading to Afghanistan. She described the deployment as Estonia's biggest mission abroad. Dressed in a peach coat, she left HMS Liverpool after a naval ceremony in the Old Port of Tallinn on the final day of her trip to Eastern Europe. The Queen was accompanied by Estonia's President Toomas Hendrik Ilves at a concert where she received flowers from two children. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were handed a gift of a large cream crocheted Estonian scarf. The Royal couple had previously visited Lithuania and Latvia . During the tour, the Queen has seen three presidents, capitals and town squares, had one state lunch and two state banquets, given three speeches and inspected three guards of honour.
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