seated center: Don Spater Senanayake
seated left: his daughter, Maria Frances Senanayake,
seated right: his wife, Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunasekera Senanayake
standing back row: son-in-law, F.H.Dias Bandaranaike, sons, D.S. Senanayake, D.C.Senanayake, & F.R. Senanayake
standing at back: D.S. Senanayake
seated left to right: D.C. Senanayake, Amadoris Mendis, unidentified person, F.R. Senanayake
seated on the grass in front: unidentified person, Carolis (DS Senanayakes valet in later years)
Queen Elizabeth II and Price Philip visited then-Ceylon in 1954 on a Commonwealth tour. Here they stand with the then Mayor Colombo and his wife at the town hall
The scene in the Freedom Hall, Colombo, as Queen Elizabeth II, with Prince Philip, arrived to open the parliament of Ceylon on their 1954 tour. The pillared hall, in the Kandyian style with open sides, was built as a memorial to Ceylon's independence