Britain’s Queen Elizabeth reviewed plans for her platinum jubilee celebrations together with her personal secretary in Sandringham, England, as she marks 70 years since she acceded to the throne, making her Britain’s longest-reigning sovereign.
Elizabeth, 95, turned the queen of Britain and greater than a dozen different realms together with Canada, Australia and New Zealand on the demise of her father King George VI on Feb. 6, 1952, whereas she was in Kenya on a world tour.
She has continued to hold out official duties properly into her 90s, however has been little seen in public since she spent an evening in hospital final October for an unspecified ailment and was then instructed by docs to relaxation.
This weekend’s low-key occasions are a prelude to extra pomp and ceremony to mark the platinum jubilee in early June. The federal government has added an additional public vacation to the same old spring time off to make for a four-day weekend.