Photograph of the welcome arch in Rangoon, now Yangon, Myanmar (modern-day Burma), in a mixture of Western and Burmese styles, with a sign saying 'Welcome to our future King and Queen'. There are niches for sculptures within the arch. The road is clear of all traffic, for the royal carriage containing the Prince and Princess of Wales, later King George V and Queen Mary, who visited Ragoon between 13-15th January 1906. Burma  was under British control, after the 2nd Anglo-Burmese War in 1852, until the Japanese occupation in 1942 and finally gained its independence in 1948..