At the 1908 Carnival held each year in the capital of the Philippines, two queens were crowned: Pura Villanueva of Iloilo City as Queen of the Orient, and Marjorie Radcliffe Colton from Galesburg, Illinois as Queen of the Occident. In which Southeast Asian capital city, home to the Malacanang Palace, did this Carnival tradition run for decades?

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Manila. The Manila Carnival was first held in February 1908 in Manila, on the old Wallace Field just off today's Luneta Park. The first carnival crowned two queens, including Marjorie Radcliffe Colton of Galesburg, Illinois as Queen of the Occident.