Reign of Queen Elizabeth II 60 Years Diamond Jubilee Photos - Britain spent the last four days marking the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. a number of the festivities included the Coronation Cup horse race, River Pageant flotilla along the River Thames, a concert at Buckingham Palace, and carriage processional through central London. it absolutely was the second time in history the united kingdom celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of a monarch.
Viewed from across the pond, it’s somewhat tempting to seem at the throngs of flag-waving Brits lining the streets of London to celebrate the Queen’s Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee and surprise what all the fuss is concerning.
What precisely is it that prompts over 1,000,000 cheering fans to face within the rain (isn’t it continually raining) along the Thames only for a glimpse of the royal barge, the monarch and also the remainder of the royal family doing what they appear to try to to most frequently – wave?
Just what's it that continues to carry the whole country in thrall centuries once kings and queens sent armies off to war and ships across the ocean in search of a brand new world?
We would recommend it’s a similar issue that kept Tevye the milkman and every one the folks of the imaginary village of Anatevka balanced sort of a fiddler on a roof throughout the years of the Czar.
Tradition.
It’s a practice warmly embraced by such pop rockers as Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, and Sir Tom Jones at the side of Dame Shirley Bassey who sang “Diamonds are Forever” as they placed on a sold-out concert that the queen ceremoniously stayed for half and then unceremoniously departed.
Like numerous things explained by tradition, they will hardly be explained in any respect. merely felt.
So in a very time when most of the planet needs to flip to history books and fairy tales to search out the stories of kings and queens, princes and dutchesses, and knights and dames, we discover ourselves not solely bemused however a tad envious of commonwealth country members from Tonga to Kenya who will merely share the thrill of an 86-year-old matriarch who is completely nothing like them.
Long could she reign.
