Today Claire, Ashley, Alexa, and I got up really early to go
to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in Central London. The Diamond Jubilee happens
to be the celebration of the Queen of England’s 60th anniversary on
the thrown. Queen Elizabeth was actually coroneted on June 5th, 60
years ago, so the entire country gets a long holiday and does not have to go
back to work until Wednesday or Thursday. It is almost difficult to think that
Elizabeth II had to take the thrown at the young age of 27 immediately after
her father, King George IV, passed away. At that time, she was married to Price
Philip of Edinburgh and was raising her children, Charles, Anne, Andrew, and
Edward.
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| Royal family |
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| Blurry picture, but that is the Queen in white and Prince Philip at her side. |
The Jubilee was not what I had made a picture of in my mind.
I thought it would be a rowdy British celebration including parties on every
street and pub and loud cheering when the royal family passed by on their
boats. Instead, it was very quiet and relaxed (still, very crowded) and there
was not as much excitement as I had thought there would be when the Queen
passed on her boat. We stood at the edge of the river and barley got a glimpse
of the royal family when they came by us. At least we got to say we saw the
Queen, Prince Philip, and others in the royal family. So, today was a success,
if I could call it one.
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| The round building is the City Hall -- Interesting architecture |
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