ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda Mrs. Louise Agnetha Lake-Tack heads to London, England where she will have her first meeting with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the II.
Preceding her meeting with Her Majesty, Mrs. Lake-Take will be invested with the award of Dame Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George GCMG, which is the highest rank of a British Order of Knighthood.
The Governor General will have her meeting with the Queen on October 17.
Mrs. Louise Agnetha Lake- took office on July 17, 2007 becoming the first female Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda Mrs. Louise Agnetha Lake-Tack
Mrs. Lake-Tack was born in the Parish of St. Phillips’s in Antigua and received her education at the Freetown Government School before attending the Antigua Girls High School in St. John’s.
After graduation, she migrated to the United Kingdom where she studied nursing at Charing Cross Hospital. Following the completion of her studies, she worked first at the National Heart Hospital and later at the Harley Street Clinic.
Mrs. Lake-Tack later studied and graduated in law and subsequently served as a magistrate at both Marylebone and Horseferry Magistrate Courts. She also sat at Pocock Street Crown Court and Middlesex Crown Court to hear appeal cases from the lower courts.
Lake-Tack served as a member of the Antigua and Barbuda National Association (London) for the 24 years preceding her appointment as Governor-General.
Lake-Tack has spelt out at her inauguration at a special joint session of Parliament that she wants an “open-door” policy at Government House – the official residence of the Governor-General.
