Queen Elizabeth II: her Diamond Jubilee weekend is upon us, 02 June - 05 June

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The celebration reaches its climax during the central weekend of June 02 thru 05. God save the Queen.

Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II (Wiki)

The official website of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee

The Queen's diamond jubilee: royalist or republican? (Guardian)

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee - celebrations and events (direct.gov.uk)

Put out the bunting. This is the age of the Second Elizabethans (that prat Boris Johnson, in the Telegraph)

An abundance of Jubilee recipes et much al. also available via a Google search.

What the Sex Pistols had to say about the Queen's 1977 Silver Jubilee, with footage of the band playing on a
boat named The Queen Elizabeth on the River Thames outside the Palace of Wesminster, 07 June 1977. (YouTube)
 
I have enormous respect for her, she didn't chose to be born a royal and wasn't born to be queen but she has devoted her life to this country.

I just love it when she wears her crown with spectacles when opening parliament. I saw her once, by accident, at Waterloo Stn, LDN. She was in a big car with police outriders, she looked tiny and her husband didn't look as if he suffered fools gladly
 
Noted republican Joe Strummer checks in.
[video=youtube;ROj_1R36lX0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROj_1R36lX0&feature=related[/video]
R.I.P. Joe Strummer - the best
 
Looking at the old YT videos of 1977- Silver Jubilee. It was the year Elvis died, I was 16. I remember that I was wearing an old grey jacket covered with chains, rubber tubing, vomit and spittle, lurex(!) union jack socks and plastic sandals (a regular fashionista me lol)

We hated everything and felt within our rights to express this loudly, the establishment did not know what to do.

Today we would have been kettled, filmed, arrested and shut up. Such is progress...
 
Dedicated to badhorsie and the spirit of '77:
[video=youtube;I2Qlb0qFLFE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Qlb0qFLFE[/video]
 
Another contrarian / national treasure:
[video=youtube;t676x0SyIq0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t676x0SyIq0[/video]
 
A monarch's duty - just think how many times Elizabeth II has performed this function, the Queen on behalf of the whole nation, presenting the wreath at the Cenotaph on Whitehall each Remembrance Sunday with solemn dutifulness and honor:
[video=youtube;MIIOGka3LKI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIOGka3LKI[/video]
 
Excellent (and lengthy) Tristram Hunt piece in the Guardian:

Queen Elizabeth II: how will our age be remembered?
"Troop after troop – one brilliant colour after another … The Queen smiled and nodded her poor tired head." So the 15-year-old Virginia Woolf recorded in her diary the sight of Queen Victoria on the day of her Diamond Jubilee in June 1897. Then all London came out to honour Britain's longest-serving sovereign. The march past and open-air ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral marked the century's high-point of imperial bombast, Victorian self-regard and British self-belief.

It was desperately appropriate that the young Virginia Woolf had stood among the crowds. It would be her generation, and fellow Bloomsbury Group intellectuals Lytton Strachey and EM Forster, who would do so much to rubbish the 19th century in the public mind. All too often when we think of the Victorian era it still remains that Bloomsbury caricature of hypocrisy, prudery, mill owners and Methodism.

But if we know who the "Eminent Victorians" are and what they stand for, what about the Elizabethan era and our own "Eminent Elizabethans"? As yet, we stand too close to an era that has not concluded. Nonetheless, this weekend's epic Jubilee celebrations offer a moment of crystalline, national reflection.
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the rest at link above
 
My son's girlfriend is from England. She has returned home for the summer to work at her mother's school and will get to meet the Queen on Friday. How neat is that?
 
Another view of Silver Jubilee Year 1977

[video=youtube;meNsTZy2JJs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNsTZy2JJs[/video]
 
And Queen's Brian May, atop the Palace, his version of God Save the Queen, Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee, 2002:
[video=youtube;_4nsifplvpk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4nsifplvpk[/video]
 
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