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Britain's Queen Elizabeth celebrates 60 years on throne
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February 6, 2012, Monday
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QUEEN Elizabeth celebrated 60 years on the throne today to become the second British monarch to reach that milestone.
During her reign, the royal family has faced tumultuous times and moments of plummeting popularity, above all after the death in 1997 of Princess Diana, the hugely popular ex-wife of her son and heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles.
But the royals are enjoying fresh support after the wedding last year of the queen's grandson, Prince William, second-in-line to the throne, to Catherine Middleton.
Elizabeth II, 85, became queen aged 25 on February 6, 1952, on the death of her father George VI, while on tour in Kenya with her husband Prince Philip.
Today's celebrations will be low key. The queen will spend the day carrying out formal duties in Norfolk, eastern England, visiting a town hall and a junior school.
There will be gun salutes at the Tower of London and at Hyde Park, while two specially commissioned photographs of the queen and Prince Philip will be published on a website launched to mark the jubilee. (www.thediamondjubilee.org)
Major celebrations take place over four days in June, including a concert at Buckingham Palace and a pageant involving a flotilla of 1,000 ships on the River Thames.
"You sometimes hear people talk as if the monarchy was simply a glittering ornament, a decoration on our national life," Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement.
During her reign, the royal family has faced tumultuous times and moments of plummeting popularity, above all after the death in 1997 of Princess Diana, the hugely popular ex-wife of her son and heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles.
But the royals are enjoying fresh support after the wedding last year of the queen's grandson, Prince William, second-in-line to the throne, to Catherine Middleton.
Elizabeth II, 85, became queen aged 25 on February 6, 1952, on the death of her father George VI, while on tour in Kenya with her husband Prince Philip.
Today's celebrations will be low key. The queen will spend the day carrying out formal duties in Norfolk, eastern England, visiting a town hall and a junior school.
There will be gun salutes at the Tower of London and at Hyde Park, while two specially commissioned photographs of the queen and Prince Philip will be published on a website launched to mark the jubilee. (www.thediamondjubilee.org)
Major celebrations take place over four days in June, including a concert at Buckingham Palace and a pageant involving a flotilla of 1,000 ships on the River Thames.
"You sometimes hear people talk as if the monarchy was simply a glittering ornament, a decoration on our national life," Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement.
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