The Queen's Jubilee

[Guest]

Directgov quote - Marking 60 years of The Queen's reign, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations will centre around an extended weekend in 2012 on 2, 3, 4 and 5 June.

I have nothing against the Queen's Jubilee celebrations in principle - more acceptable than the Olympics for me - but anyone could be forgiven this weekend for thinking that they had got the date wrong. They seem to have kicked off very early.

[Serial_Apologist]

Directgov quote - Marking 60 years of The Queen's reign, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations will centre around an extended weekend in 2012 on 2, 3, 4 and 5 June.

I have nothing against the Queen's Jubilee celebrations in principle - more acceptable than the Olympics for me - but anyone could be forgiven this weekend for thinking that they had got the date wrong. They seem to have kicked off very early.

And on the wrong foot...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

if you don't step on the cracks in the pavemet everything will be allright ..... much cheaper to be simply superstitious than rely on Monarchy and Majesty for reassurances ... £££££££££££££££Billions innit [cost] ££m tourism the Beefeasters could do it on their own .....

[Mary Chambers]

I have nothing against the Queen's Jubilee celebrations in principle - more acceptable than the Olympics for me - but anyone could be forgiven this weekend for thinking that they had got the date wrong. They seem to have kicked off very early.

Not as early as the Olympics

The news has numerous people getting excited about a gold-coloured cheese grater.

[amateur51]

Not as early as the Olympics

The news has numerous people getting excited about a gold-coloured cheese grater.

That 'gold-coloured cheese grater' is the recently re-elected Mayor of London in full grin mode, Mary - an easy mistake to make

[Mary Chambers]

Somehow managed to post twice. This is my attempt at deletion.

[french frank]

but anyone could be forgiven this weekend for thinking that they had got the date wrong. They seem to have kicked off very early.

They've probably announced this and I've missed it - is it supposed to be a conflation of the year she ascended the throne and the date she was crowned? Or starting the 12 months leading up to the coronation?

[Flosshilde]

but anyone could be forgiven this weekend for thinking that they had got the date wrong. They seem to have kicked off very early.

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.)

[Lateralthinking1]

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.)

Wow, that's really helpful Flosshilde. Thanks. So she's there already. When do we celebrate her exceeding Victoria's reign? The longer we can postpone Charles and Camilla the better.

[Mary Chambers]

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

[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 ...