the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant will take place. On Monday 4 June a concert will be held at Buckingham Palace and a network of beacons will be lit throughout the UK and the Commonwealth. On Tuesday 5 June a Service of Thanksgiving will be held at St. Paul’s Cathedral, which will be followed by a formal carriage Procession. Will there be events at other times during the year? There will be many…
…Organizing a Big Lunch Guide” on the Big Lunch website. You can also request a Big Jubilee Lunch pack, containing advice as well as posters, leaflets and recipes. The Central Weekend 2 – 5 June 2012 The Central Weekend to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee takes place from Saturday 2 June to Tuesday 5 June 2012, with celebratory activities throughout the UK and acro…
…roof. The audience will comprise of people who got tickets in a public ballot and those from charities with royal links. At the end of the show, Queen Elizabeth II will light one of the last of around 4,500 beacons across the globe – in celebration of her 60-year reign. In the afternoon, prior to the Jubilee concert, 10,000 ballot winners and VIPs will have a picnic in the gardens of Bucking…
other members of the Royal Family. The Queen was not present for the first 90 minutes of the concert, taking her seat in the Royal Box at 21:00 BST. The evening will end with the Queen lighting one of 4,500 beacons across the world marking her 60-year reign. The concert is being broadcast live on BBC One and BBC Radio 2 in the UK and to millions around the world. It is a joint venture between the…
h Peru one possible candidate for a future visit, believes Michael Binyon. Argentina, on the other hand, would be “out of the question” because of the tensions created by the Falklands War 30 years ago, says Michael Binyon. Prince Philip has, however, visited the country (in 1962). He has also been, without the Queen, to countless other nations around the world, often in his work for t…
7;s three young daughters were brought out to wave at the crowds. Willem-Alexander will later be officially sworn at the Nieuwe Kerk, before a joint session of the Dutch parliament. His wife Maxima, a 41-year-old Argentine-born investment banker, will become queen consort. In the evening, the royal family will take part in a water pageant. The ceremonies will be attended by other invited royals an…
ed the huge changes occurring across Eastern Europe and particularly the Soviet Union, which was dissolved into 15 states on Christmas Day. In her speech in 1995, the Queen reminded the country of the 50th anniversaries of VE Day and VJ Day and paid tribute to soldiers who had died in the Second World War. Two years later, the Queen’s message opened with a reminder of a personal loss when Pr…
e introduction of less formal engagements and visits, and the introduction of the ‘walkabout’ – the meeting and greeting of large numbers of the public. In 2002, the Queen celebrated 50 years on the throne; in 2006, her 80th birthday; and in 2012, her Diamond Jubilee. The Jubilee will be marked by celebrations across the UK throughout the year. Official website of The Diamond J…
…mplete with fireworks and pyrotechnics. After the show, the Queen pressed a diamond-shaped crystal into a pod, igniting a beacon in The Mall to mark her 60 years on the throne. It was one of more than 4,000 lit across the UK and the Commonwealth. …
…ng between the Queen and Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister took place at a charity event in Belfast on Wednesday morning. In the afternoon she attended a Diamond Jubilee party attended by 20,000 in Stormont. The Queen and Martin McGuinness shook hands at a private meeting and later shook hands in public. The private meeting, in a room at the theatre, involved a group of seven people,…
…lot of nonsense” and spoke with admiration about her commitment to the Commonwealth and armed services. “No one could curtsey lower than Margaret Thatcher,” said another former aide. Inevitably, after 11 years of almost weekly meetings, the Queen and Margaret Thatcher reached something akin to friendship. Margaret Thatcher was even said to have jokingly sent the monarch a pair of rubber gloves as…
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Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics and Paolo Nutini are celebrating the start of London Olympic Games at a special concert in Hyde Park this evening. The show coincides with the opening ceremony, which will be shown on big screens in the park. Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini took to the stage to loud cheers to open the show in front of 50,000 fans. Each of the four acts on the bill w…
…nt of his infection continues with antibiotics. “He is likely to remain in hospital over the next few days. He is in good spirits.” The Queen arrived at the hospital, in central London, at 17:10 BST and left at 17:55. The Duke of York left the hospital at about 18:40 BST. Prince Andrew told reporters that his father was “mending very well”. Meanwhile, the Prince of Wales, w…
…the Queen, Prince Philip stood for most of the 80-minute journey down the Thames and did appear to be in discomfort. The Duke of Edinburgh has previously suffered from a bladder infection in February 2002. Today staff at ambulance control in Berkshire received a call from Windsor Castle shortly after 2:00 p.m. reporting that Prince Phillip was feeling unwell. Prince Philip was reported to have be…
Last night hundreds of die-hard Madonna fans abandoned their Queen of Pop by marching out of London’s Hyde Park during her MDNA concert – some branding it the worst they had ever seen. Even a sexy striptease on stage left fans cold- one simply stated: “When Madonna has concerts in her 50s where she strips herself on stage, you know her career is as dead as myspace.” Many fans decided…
…nth anniversary of the band’s musical We Will Rock You. The announcement comes soon after drummer Roger Taylor said he wouldn’t feel comfortable performing with a simulation of the singer, who died in 1991. Controversy has surrounded the projection effect after rapper Tupac Shakur appeared with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg at last month’s Coachella festival, even though he was shot dead in 1996. Asked w…
…the weather”, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said. The coach, built in 1881, was first used by the Queen and Duke on their wedding day when they travelled from Westminster Abbey to the palace on 20 November 1947. The Duke of Cambridge, who is Colonel of the Irish Guards and the Prince of Wales, who is Colonel of the Welsh Guards, were joined on horseback by the Princess Royal, Colonel of the…
When Queen Elizabeth appeared to parachute into the Olympic Stadium this summer it was hailed as one of the greatest moments in British television history. As part of the lavish London 2012 opening ceremony the Queen was shown jumping from a helicopter with James Bond actor Daniel Craig, but ever since there has been mystery surrounding how, exactly, she was persuaded to do it – until now….
…as my best decision.” Monday evening’s gala dinner was being attended by her family and other invited royals and high-ranking dignitaries. Earlier on Monday, Crown-Prince Willem-Alexander, 46, his future queen Maxima, 41, and their three children took part in a final dress rehearsal for his investiture at Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk. Willem-Alexander will become the Netherlands’…
…d autopsy photos of the murdered child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey. In her hometown of Boulder, Colorado, many stores were so outraged by the publication that they took the edition off the stands. In 2010, Globe magazine published a front cover with a picture of actor Gary Coleman during his last hours – sparking outrage throughout the world. In the photograph Gary Coleman can be seen on hi…
an interpreter called Corinne. But can it really be true that our very own Princess Diana was one of Juan Carlos’s most significant conquests? And that it was the relationship between her and the then 48-year-old king, in the prime of his romantic life, that finally put paid to any chance of reviving his marriage? It is certainly the case that Princess Diana, together with Prince Charles and their…
…of Settlement, which means that only the Protestant heirs of the Electress Sophia of Hanover, granddaughter of James I, can become king or queen. The Queen hailed the deal on changing the rules as the 53 Commonwealth countries met last year, saying she wanted the theme of allowing women to play a full part to last for years. She said: “The theme this year is Women As Agents of Change. “It reminds…
espread practice of disc jockeys accepting gifts from promoters to play their records. Convicted of commercial bribery in 1962, Alan Freed died of complications from alcoholism three years later, aged 43. Though Alan Freed had been silenced, the rock ‘n’ roll genie was well and truly out of the bottle. The Moondog Coronation Ball laid the foundations for every rock gig that followed, f…
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