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Queen Elizabeth II, 96, with growing mobility problems, was cheered on Thursday as she appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace by a huge crowd gathered to celebrate her 70-year reign.
Dressed in a blue coat and hat, the monarch stood smiling and leaning on a cane next to her cousin the Duke of Kent, colonel of the Scots Guards, as 1,500 soldiers paraded past the palace on the first day of her “jubilee”. platinum”. I followed the celebration minute by minute.
02.06.2022
08:51
After allegations of sexual abuse, Prince Andrew returns to catch the eyes
Prince Andrew with the Queen. Photo: AFP
More than those present, the novelty is the absentees in the Queen’s Jubilee. The principal will be Andrew, the Duke of York, her favorite son. He had to give up his real assets in 2019. They also stripped him of all his honorary military titles and the patronage of Elizabeth II, last February, due to the Epstein case, a pedophilia and teen trafficking scandal.
The allegations are not judicial evidence. But the royal family’s decision came when he did faced charges of sexually assaulting Virginia Giuffre when she was 18, after being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the prince’s ex-girlfriend.
But has the hour of forgiveness come? The archbishop of Canterbury, Msgr. Justin Welby, head of the Anglican church together with the sovereign. Read more.
02.06.2022
08:36
Maria Laura Avignolo
Four days of celebration: the complete agenda
AFP photo.
Celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the reign of Elizabeth II kicked off at 7 Argentine hours and promise 4 busy days in the UK.
It is the Horse Guard Parade, in the Mall it was the first of the acts for the official birthday of the sovereign. The Queen follows him from the balcony of Buckingham Palace over 1,200 officers and men and 240 horses. There are screens in St James Park and it is broadcast all over the world.
All the activities of the celebrations.
02.06.2022
08:32
Maria Laura Avignolo
With unexpected changes, the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins in the UK
public reconciliation. The royal family have abandoned all their differences and are fighting to show a united front on Thursday at the Trooping the Color ceremony, at the start of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in London.
Harry and Meghan, the Dukes of Sussex, finally share the same seat as Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Camila, the future queen consort. Something that was not expected.
Only Prince Andrew, stripped of his titles and patronage by the Epstein case, will not appear in this image of family reconstruction, painstakingly woven by the sovereign. Read more here.
02.06.2022
08:31
Elizabeth II goes out onto the balcony of the palace at the beginning of the Jubilee
photo by Reuters.
Queen Elizabeth II, 96, went out on Thursday to the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London for the official salute at the end of the “Trooping the Color” military parade, which marks the beginning of the celebrations for her 70 years of reign.
Due to her mobility problems, the sovereign did not greet the British regiments during the “Trooping the Color”, in the parade ground of Horse Parade, headquarters of the cavalry guard, but kept the traditional salute in the palace, which today shows a huge royal standard.
The queen, in a sky-blue dress, matching hat and cane in hand, went out onto the balcony with her cousin Duke of Kent to greet the regiments that were parading in front of the balcony.
As soon as he appeared on the balcony, the screams of thousands of people were heard who occupied the large boulevard “The Mall”, which connects the building with Whitehall, the government area of the country.
Source: Clarin
