LONDON (AP) - India’s head of state was greeted with a generous helping of British pageantry as she began a three-day state visit on Tuesday.

Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the royal family met President Pratibha Patil as she arrived in Windsor, west of London. The president and the monarch left for Windsor Castle in a procession of carriages, escorted by the Household Cavalry. Some of the route to the imposing fortress was lined by guardsmen wearing their distinctive bearskin hats and scarlet tunics.

Once at the castle, the Indian president was greeted by an honor guard, which she inspected together with Prince Philip, the queen’s husband. Members of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards towered over her as she walked through the lines.