Jubilee

A jubilee weekend

The first weekend in June will be a big celebration of Queen Elizabeth. The main event in my view will be the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on Sunday June 3rd, where all kinds of boats will make on of the largest flotillas ever assembled on the river.

In Battersea Park near the Thames there will be music and dance, fashion show from the 50′s and a classic car boot sale with collectables from the same period.

There will of course also be tea and cakes for all, and the bakers “Konditor & Cook” will construct a huge portrait of the Queen out of 3,120 cakes (one for each week of her reign).

I would love to be there, but I will have to make do with the TV – and a piece of Jubilee Cake, of course…

Photo: © Konditor & Cook

Diamond Jubilee

The Diamond Jubilee is marking 60 years of The Queen’s reign

All eyes will undoubtedly be on England this year. Not only will the country be hosting the Olympics for the third time – Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her diamond jubilee after six decades on the throne. This is most impressive, and it is no less impressive when you consider, that the queen’s great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, also managed to celebrate her diamond jubilee.

When the English King George VI died in 1952, his daughter Elizabeth acceded to the throne as Queen Elizabeth II, and she was crowned the following year in Westminster Abbey. After a few years of marriage and at the age of only twenty-five she became the ruler of a superpower.

In connection with the anniversary everyone gets an extra day off. Normally the British Bank Holiday falls on the last Monday in May, but this year it has been moved to the beginning of June and added an extra public holiday on Tuesday June 5th, so everyone can join in the celebration of the Queen. One of the highlights will be a Jubilee concert with major artists such as Shirley Bassey, Elton John and Paul McCartney.

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