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Article: The Queen's Golden Jubilee.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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'I AM writing, after a very fatiguing day, in the garden at Buckingham Palace, where I used to sit so often in former happy days. Fifty years to-day since I came to the Throne! God has mercifully sustained me through many great trials and sorrows'. Queen Victoria was noting this in her extensive journal on 20 June, 1887.
This month, on the sixth of February her great-great-granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her own Golden Jubilee of fifty years on the throne. 'She became Queen', wrote Harold Nicholson, 'while perched in a tree in Africa watching the rhinoceros'. Actually she was watching baboons; she was in Kenya on a tour of the Empire that was on ...