After seventy years of reign, “The popularity of the Queen has steadily increasing with his age,” says Jane Ridley’s historian. She informed, Saturday, his “sincere wish” that “Camilla is designated as Queen Consort” when Charles will be king.
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Sunday, February 6, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates seventy years of reign – his “platinum jubilee”. At age 95, she became the first sovereign of the United Kingdom to achieve such a longevity. In Europe, the French king Louis XIV is one of the very rare sovereigns to have reigned longer: seventy-two years old.
On Wednesday, February 6, 1952 brand what the British call the accession Day (“the day of accession”). The lifeless body of King George VI – The father of Princess Elizabeth is discovered by a valet at 7:30 am in the royal residence of Sandringham, in Norfolk. The monarch, very weakened by lung cancer, died in his sleep at the age of 56. At 10:45, The London Gazette, the oldest daily life of the country, publishes an urgent message, announcing that “the king, who retired last night to rest, died peacefully in his sleep early this morning”. The information is broadcast by the BBC at 11:15.
Princess Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, who have undertaken a great common jolt of the Commonwealth, are, that day, in a remote part of Kenya. To believe the historian Ben Pimlott, cited by the Research Service of the British Parliament, the Princess Private Secretary, Martin Charteris, hears the news of the king’s death from his Kenyan hotel and warns Prince Philip’s private secretary, Mike Parker, who succeeded, for his part, to capture the waves of the BBC. Prince Philip warns the princess at 11:45 (London time).
She is declared queen immediately, as the tradition does (“The King Is Dead, Long Live The King! (Or the Queen)”), and returns to London on February 7th. She is 25 years old, already two children – Prince Charles, 3 years old, and Princess Anne, 1 year. His coronation will take place a year later, on June 2, 1953, at Westminster Abbey. “His new charge had to take the step on family life, with long tours abroad the now remote [of his children] for months at the time,” says Buckingham Palace, on The Web page dedicated to accession Day.
“Canopy of the Jubilee” and pastry competition
The anniversary of the accession day will be marked, Monday, February 7, by forty and a gunshot, drawn from Green Park (the nearest park of Buckingham Palace, in the center of London), and sixty And a shots from the Tower of London. Multiple associations, schools, or municipal councils will plant their Jubilee Tree (Jubilee Tree), responding to the Call of the Palace to build a “Jubilee Canopy”. The French Embassy in London planned to plant, Sunday, February 6, a Normandy apple in the gardens of the Ambassador’s residence.
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