Platinum Jubilee: The story of the royal family through their balcony photos

Posted by Valentine Belue on Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Britain celebrated the queen’s Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years on the throne, in 2002. The final day of festivities drew a million-strong crowd, and even those who want Britain to become a republic conceded it was a success. “If we are going to have a monarch in this day and age, then a long period of rule by a decent, prosaic, uncontroversial, rule-bound and dutiful one like Elizabeth II is probably as good as it is likely to get,” the Guardian newspaper said in its editorial.

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