Today a celebration will be held at Westminster Abbey commemorating Queen Elizabeth II’s 60th coronation anniversary otherwise known as “The Diamond Jubilee”.
Written by Chris White
The Diamond Jubilee used to be for 75th coronation anniversaries however, it was remade for 60th coronation anniversaries for Queen Victory who died three years after hers in 1901.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be among the 2,000 odd invited guests attending the ceremony. It will be the first time that the royal couple have attended a public engagement since their royal wedding in 2011.
Royal sources claim that the Queen’s husband the Duke of Edinburgh will attend despite suffering from health problems yesterday, which caused him to cancel an engagement with the Queen.
Other royal attendees will include the Prince of Wales, Prince Harry, the Duke of York, Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugene, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor, Princess Anne, Zara Phillips and her husband Mike Tindall.
The royal Anglican service led by the Archbishop of Canterbury will be divided into three stages reflecting the original parts of the 1953 coronation, which shall be ‘The Recognition’, ‘The Anointing’, ‘The Homage’ and ‘The Thanksgiving’.
The St. Edward’s Crown, with which Elizabeth II was originally crowned, will rest on the high altar as will the golden ampulla with which Elizabeth was anointed with holy oils. It will be the first time that the official coronation crown has been moved from its normal abode at the Tower of London.
Readings will be given by British Prime Minister David Cameron followed by the Secretary General of the Commonwealth Kamalesh Sharma and the BBC actress Claire Skinner.
Although the coronation anniversary is an exclusively Anglican ceremony, the service will be attended by Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and Sikh representatives, as well as High Commissioners of Commonwealth countries and representatives of British Overseas Territories.
After the service the Queen and her family members will attend a private lunch with 100 guests in the Abbey Community Hall, which was originally constructed in the 14th Century under Edward III.
The event comes just as the Duchess of Cambridge is heavily pregnant with the Queen’s great grandchild.
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