Royal Reunion

The queen had lunch outside the Governor's Palace in the Colonial Williamsburg Historic District, then toured the College of William and Mary. She and her husband left for Louisville on Friday night to attend the Kentucky Derby and planned to return to Washington on Sunday.

In the morning, the settlement, also the site of a re-created Colonial fort, was bustling.

Sam Running Deer McGowan, 30, a member of the Mattaponi tribe, was in full regalia -- red and black face paint, buckskin garments -- and his scalp was closely shaved on both sides. From his right ear a hawk's claw dangled.

McGowan, a settlement employee who visits public schools to teach about Jamestown, said he had no bad feelings about the hardships his people suffered after the English arrived.

"We live and learn from mistakes," he said, acknowledging that the Indians' welcome was not always warm. "We want to get out the word that our people are still here. It's a great honor to see and meet the queen. I look for no apology."

The queen, accompanied by her husband, entered the living history park about 10:25 a.m. near the pier where replicas of the three original ships -- the Godspeed, the Susan Constant and the Discovery -- were moored.

The queen strolled along the walk leading to the fort, several hundred people lining both sides of her path, snapping pictures and applauding.

Inside the fort, O'Connor and Cheney spoke in a brief ceremony. "Inside a little three-sided fort, in this corner of Virginia, large events were set in motion," Cheney said, "and great and noble traditions were introduced."

Afterward, Prince Philip toured the Susan Constant. A sailor in period costume piped a whistle to sound the welcome, and the duke strode up the gangplank. Capt. Eric Speth welcomed him aboard.

The prince, wearing a dark suit with a blue-striped shirt and maroon tie, listened as Speth, maritime program manager for the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, the state agency that operates the museum, spoke.

As the duke returned to the pier, four crew members climbed the ship's rigging. Others went below deck to prepare its cannon.

"Your majesty," Speth called from the deck of the ship, "on behalf of Jamestown Settlement and Jamestown's founding fleet, we salute you!"