Please join me in celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee anniversary.

[rafterman]

Officially Monday February 06th marks the 60th anniversary of HRH 1952 coronation. The old gal's 85 years young. Pretty amazing how healthy and active she remains. Given her mum the Queen Mother made it to 100 yrs old it's quite possible she could stay on the throne for another 15 years by which point Prince Charles will be a doddering 85 year old.

Canada readies for Queen's jubilee




Nation celebrates 60-year reign



By Randy Boswell, Postmedia News February 1, 2012


Canada will mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's ascent to the throne with a series of celebratory gestures in Ottawa and across the country in the coming days, including the unveiling of a special jubilee emblem carved in ice at Ottawa's annual Winterlude festival - a fitting tribute to the 85-year-old monarch from the snowiest corner of her realm.

Other showcase ceremonies next week will be the dedication of stained-glass artwork at the Parliament Buildings and Gov. Gen. David Johnston's presentation of the first 60 jubilee medals at Rideau Hall to outstanding citizens from all parts of Canada.

The official Diamond Jubilee flag will also be flown from the Peace Tower for a week beginning Monday, 60 years to the day since the Queen began her remarkably long, occasionally turbulent, but mostly charmed reign on, Feb. 6, 1952.

The former Princess Elizabeth was vacationing in Kenya with Prince Philip when she learned that her father, King George VI, had died and that she had become the symbolic head of Britain and other Commonwealth countries, including Queen of Canada.

Next week's events will kick start a year of celebrations in Canada and around the world, with a planned Thames River pageant in June - involving up to 1,000 elaborately decorated ships and boats in a regal flotilla.

Canada's anniversary tributes are more modest, and a clearer picture of the further ways the country plans to mark the occasion is expected to emerge next week when Heritage Minister James Moore announces funding for community-based jubilee projects.

The federal government revealed in December that it had set a $7.5-million budget to celebrate the royal anniversary. Most of that amount is earmarked for the jubilee medal presentations, which are to be held in Ottawa and at provincial capitals throughout 2012, with several ceremonies scheduled for next week.

Moore will also attend Monday's ceremony at Rideau Hall, where Johnston will launch the medal initiative by presenting one medal to a worthy Canadian for each year since Elizabeth became Queen.

Not all of Canada's gifts to the Queen have awaited the official Feb. 6 start of the jubilee anniversary. In December, a delegation of representatives from the Manitoba-based Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery presented Her Majesty with a gold and platinum brooch at Buckingham Palace. The ornate pin features a maple leaf encrusted with 60 individual diamonds, a gold cannon and a stylized crown set with a sapphire, emeralds and rubies.

Canada Post recently unveiled a set of stamps marking each decade of the Queen's reign, including one design that recalls the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth's great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria.

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[blackrock13]

Time to break out the Special Sherry.

 

[danmand]

60 years of parasiting on the back of the poor. Quite an accomplishment to have avoided a revolution.

 

[blackrock13]

60 years of parasiting on the back of the poor. Quite an accomplishment to have avoided a revolution.

Your claim of the Royals being parasites has been refuting many times in past threads, but if you wish to go over it again, knock yourself out. Somehow I doubt you will. You'll just clam up and fad back into the paint again.

 

[Viggo Rasmussen]

Same day as the anniversary of her father George VI's death.

Cheers!

 

[blackrock13]

60 years of parasiting on the back of the poor. Quite an accomplishment to have avoided a revolution.

Your claim of the Royals being parasites has been refuting many times in past threads, but if you wish to go over it again, knock yourself out. Somehow I doubt you will. You'll just clam up and fad back into the paint again.

Apparently DM has decided not to back up his rant, again.

 

[wigglee]

my grandmother lived to 100, and I didn't see you slobbering fools worshipping her in her last days, though she was much wiser and more intelligent than Liz........85 ain't bad for an inbred though.

 

[blackrock13]

my grandmother lived to 100, and I didn't see you slobbering fools worshipping her in her last days, though she was much wiser and more intelligent than Liz........85 ain't bad for an inbred though.

Was she as influential in world affairs as the Queen? I'm sure she was a wise women, but most people wouldn't hear much of what she had say. Again this in bread claim. 7th cousins are allowed to marry in many countries and aren't really a genetic threat to the family health and welfare.

 

[asterwald]

The Royal family is part of British history and culture. Like Spain's, Japan's etc. Nothing wrong with that. These nations are democracies.

The Royal families of the Arab states however... Apparently The Saudi royal family owns all the land in the country legally.

 

[rafterman]

I believe the Queen owns her various palaces and is a multibillionaire given her London digs is some of the priciest real estate in the world.

 

[thompo69]

Officially Monday February 06th marks the 60th anniversary of HRH 1952 coronation.

Monday marks the 60th anniversary of Her accession to the Throne, not Her coronation. Her coronation took place in June 1953.

 

[rafterman]

Ha ha ha thanks for the correction. I'll be having a fireworks show in my yard on Monday.

 

[Fatume]

Can't believe that in this day and age people are still paying homage to such an outdated practice as royalty. Better to live 1 day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. Some will never get it. Some just love that feeling of being subservient I guess.

 

[Ref]

Can't believe that in this day and age people are still paying homage to such an outdated practice as royalty.

You mean it is real? All these years I thought it was just Englands version of Disney...

 

[rafterman]

I stand in awe of the majestry of the throne.

 

[whitewaterguy]

Can't believe that in this day and age people are still paying homage to such an outdated practice as royalty. Some just love that feeling of being subservient I guess.

correct, especially when you consider the masses who still trek to Rome to see the Pope wave his hands from his balcony, whilst the bishops and cardinals strategize where to find refuge for the weekly pool of freshly outted front line diddling priests. On their knees, sticking out their tongues, eating dick. At least Queenie and her entourage played her cards right for the better part of her life, knowing full well their gravy train would keep on flowing so long as she behave, smiled and just kept waving. the human race truly remains a very primitive species in terms of idolizing those who have more than the masses. It's what keeps TV, Facebook, Twitter and all that shit in business

 

[chuckparker]

Fuck the Queen and the whole inbread royal family. they have done nothing but cost us money for years and years !!! Let the rich cunt pay for her own travel and security. Last 4 visits over the last 4 years have cost us 2 million per visit.

 

[blackrock13]

correct, especially when you consider the masses who still trek to Rome to see the Pope wave his hands from his balcony, whilst the bishops and cardinals strategize where to find refuge for the weekly pool of freshly outted front line diddling priests. On their knees, sticking out their tongues, eating dick. At least Queenie and her entourage played her cards right for the better part of her life, knowing full well their gravy train would keep on flowing so long as she behave, smiled and just kept waving. the human race truly remains a very primitive species in terms of idolizing those who have more than the masses. It's what keeps TV, Facebook, Twitter and all that shit in business

Considering you think the Scouts are a paramilitary organization and the school system is full of pedophiles, your grasp on reality is clearly flawed. The only member on here that uses more cliches than you have here is the village idiot Woodie and we all know how well grounded in reality he is.

 

[blackrock13]

Fuck the Queen and the whole inbread royal family. they have done nothing but cost us money for years and years !!! Let the rich cunt pay for her own travel and security. Last 4 visits over the last 4 years have cost us 2 million per visit.

Again with the claim of inbreading. Care to show how that's the case. There is nothing like facts too back up a claim like that. Not that we should expect that you will. It's just another ignorant drive by fruiting.

 

[CUTTERBUCK]

Please join me in celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee anniversary.

Being a born and bred Brit, I salute Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.