2012 : The Queen’s reply :
Olympic games : opening ceremony Daniel Craig (James Bond) and the Queen
YOUR DIAMOND JUBILEE DIARY OF EVENTS
February 3rd
The Queen planted her first tree of the Woodland Trust’s ‘Plant a million trees for the Jubilee’ campaign
February 4th to October 28th
‘The Queen: Sixty Photographs for Sixty Years’ :The Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle.
Thursday, May 10th : for the pupils from Marcigny
To mark the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the Jewel House – the high security home to the Crown Jewels – will be re-displayed for visitors in a new presentation from 29th March 2012. The exhibition will explore the importance of the Crown Jewels to the British monarchy, the role of the Tower in protecting these treasures and the long and fascinating tradition of coronations in England :
on Wednesday, May 9thfor the pupils from Marcigny at the Tower of London
February 8th to April 22nd
‘Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration’ :The V&A, London
March 12 th
Commonwealth Day . Sixty years as Head of the Commonwealth celebrated in a service at Westminster Abbey
March 16th to November 4th
‘Treasures from The Queen’s Palaces’. The Queen’s Gallery,Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh
March 20th
The Queen will address a joint session of Parliament
April 27th to September 9th
‘Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames’.The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
May 4th to October 7th
‘Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist’. The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
May 10th, 11th, 13th
The Diamond Jubilee Pageant will take place in the private grounds of Windsor Castle during the Horse Show with displays and horses from around the world (www.diamond-jubilee-pageant.com)
May 17th to October 21st
‘The Queen: Art and Image’. The National Portrait Gallery and touring
June 2nd
The Investec Epsom Derby
June 3rd
The Big Jubilee Lunch
Lunch parties, picnics and street parties will be encouraged to bring communities together. The event is being organised by the Big Lunch (www.thebiglunch.com)
The Thames Diamond
Jubilee Pageant
Up to 1,000 boats from around the world will form a flotilla and travel down the Thames from Putney to Tower Bridge led by The Queen travelling in the Royal Barge-The Spirit of Chartwell -decked out as a 17th-/18th-century royal galley. The procession will be accompanied by the ringing of church bells, fireworks and music. The event is being organised by The Diamond Jubilee Foundation (www.thamesdiamond
jubileepageant.org)
Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday
June 4th
The BBC Concert at Buckingham Palace will be televised and tickets are available to UK resi-dents by public ballot. The programme will feature musicians from Britain and the Commonwealth
Jubilee Beacons
Across the country, 2012 beacons will be lit and there will be others in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and across the Commonwealth. The Queen will light the National Beacon as she did in 2002 and there will be Church Tower beacons on the battlements of the Tower of London, St James’s Palace, London and at The Palace of Holyrood-house, Edinburgh, and Killyleagh Castle, Northern Ireland, among many others.
June 5 th
Service of thanksgiving
A service of thanksgiving is to be held at St Paul’s Cathedral, with a formal carriage
procession by The Queen
July 31st to September 30th
‘Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration’
The Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace.
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