The Queen's Jubilee

[Norfolk Born]

I'd assumed that the real purpose of the long weekend in June was to encourage us to forget all about the unemployment figures, Leveson, our inevitable early elimination from Euro 2012, Afghanistan.....

[VodkaDilc]

Elizabeth became queen on the 6th February 1952, when her father, George VI, died. So she's been queen for 60 years (and a bit). The date of the coronation doesn't affect that - Edward VIII was never crowned, but was still king until he abdicated.

(technically Elizabeth should be Elizabeth I, as Scotland has never had a monarch called Elizabeth. The present queen is the first Elizabeth to reign over Great Britain, & presumably Northen Ireland as a seperate state.)

So should we (they!) be marking the occasion in either February 2012 or June 2013? Who decided on this artificial date?

I will ignore the whole thing, as with the Olympics. (I might watch the flame go past, since I think it's passing close to here, but I certainly won't watch any of the racing and suchlike on the television.) There are so many more interesting things to do during the summer months.

[salymap]

What really alarms me is that I can remember every one of those sixty years

What really alarms me Mary is that I watched the Coronation on someone else's TV and then went to London for the evening to 'see the sights' and meet friends. Now I can hardly get to the shop across the road

[Curalach]

So should we (they!) be marking the occasion in either February 2012 or June 2013? Who decided on this artificial date?

I suppose next year's mediafest will be the Diamond Jubilee of the Coronation. Oh God.

[scottycelt]

UK republicans are, of course, the direct descendants of the old puritanical Roundheads, so no surprise they are the great political 'party-poopers' of modern times.

Really, what a right bunch of miseries and spoilsports ...

[amateur51]

UK republicans are, of course, the direct descendants of the old puritanical Roundheads, so no surprise they are the great political 'party-poopers' of modern times.

Really, what a right bunch of miseries and spoilsports ...

Are you flogging this old tosh by the metre, scotty?

What did you do for the last few royal weddings?

I had a very jolly time with my republican chums

[teamsaint]

I suppose next year's mediafest will be the Diamond Jubilee of the Coronation. Oh God.

thanks for the heads up.
Publishers dream.
Might be a bonus in this for me !!

[scottycelt]

Are you flogging this old tosh by the metre, scotty?

What did you do for the last few royal weddings?

I had a very jolly time with my republican chums

What's his name, Ams ... Oliver ..? ...

[MrGongGong]

Are you flogging this old tosh by the metre, scotty?

What did you do for the last few royal weddings?

I had a very jolly time with my republican chums

It really is one huge Crock'o'shite isn't it .................

what IS odd is that the queen somehow emerges from everything smelling of roses when she is a parent of some fairly disfunctional children , does she not have SOME responsibility ?

aaah well maybe she can have a banquet for some more evil tyrants to cheer herself up

[scottycelt]

It really is one huge Crock'o'shite isn't it .................

Puritanical miseries, spoilsports ... I rest my case .