Queen Elizabeth II, closing four days of celebrations of her 60 years on the throne without her husband at her side, will make a rare address to the nation on Tuesday. full story ![]()

RICHARD KAY: Last year, an exceptional 12 months with the Jubilee celebrations, she carried out some 425 engagements, a remarkable statistic for someone who will be 87 in a little over a month.
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A two hour fly-on-the-wall documentary following the Queen during her Diamond Jubilee year will be shown on ITV.
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THE captain of the ship was left a little red-faced after the Queen’s million-pound rowbarge that was used for the Diamond Jubilee pageant crashed into a bridge.
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SPENCERVILLE — Jordan Rex, a senior at Spencerville High School, was crowned Queen Jubilee XXXVIII, at the Van Wert Peony Festival Pageant, held April 5. She also won the talent portion of the contest
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Jewels of the Jubilee, a program about the history of the jewels from the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, will be presented Wednesday evening at the Penfield Public Library.
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The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee rowbarge Gloriana is to take the starring role in a “London Marathon on water” as 37,000 runners take to the city’s roads on Sunday.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the silver jubilee celebrations of market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India here Friday, an official said here.
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A bid to plant six million trees across the UK to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee has successfully reached the final milestone, the Woodland Trust said.
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Boris Johnson today admitted he had written a rap on the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. The London Mayor - who met...
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It's odd, being the Queen: you're woken by an infernal bagpiper, and meet lots of nervous peopleRemember the last one of these, the BBC's A Year With The Queen a few years ago? A misleading trailer appeared to show Her Maj storming out of a photoshoot with Annie Leibovitz in a huff, but the storm was created in an edit suite. An almighty fuss ensued; orf with their heads,...
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