Diamond Jubilee Celebrations London
Welcome back to this week Tuesday Tots, I’m sorry if you were expecting to see some featured posts this week instead I wanted to share some pictures for an amazing weekend we had where J and T were present whilst History was being made.
This weekend Queen Elizabeth II celebrated 60 years on the throne and there has been amazing celebrations across the UK. We decided to brave it and headed to London on Sunday 3rd June to see the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Parade on the Thames. A flotilla of boats from rowing boats to paddle steamers and of course the royal barge with the Queen on going down the Thames for 7 miles.
We went with family and had a wonderful day with the typical British rain and cold. But were lucky enough to have an amazing location along the Thames directly opposite the London Eye.
J and T waited from 12pm in the same location without any problems, I had packed some entertainment including a pencil and paper which J decided to have a rest with and drew a picture of the Queen or “The leader” as he decided to name her.
When it came to the flotilla J and T took up position on our shoulders and waved like mad – continuing when they dropped their flags. J entertained the crowd around us with a rendition of Row Row Row Your Boat as the rowers headed down the Thames.
Even when the Queen had passed and the crowds started to disperse T stayed upon Pop’s shoulders taking in History in the making – it had been 300 years since a parade of boats had last gone down the Thames and it is unlikely in my life time that a Monarch will celebrate 60 years on the throne again.
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What a great day out and it they were so good. We are going to London on Thursday and actually going on the London Eye and we are really excited about the day! x
Hi – It’s so cool you got to participate in this celebration.
I’m not sure what happened when I tried to link up, but the image didn’t show up. Maybe you could help me fix it?
Thanks
Julie
Lovely photographs Cerys! It looks like it was a fantastic day with the family! x
Hi, I’ve sorted it out – for some reason I think it maybe because it’s putting a blogspot.de address in – when you add the linky if you change it from blogspot.de to blogspot.com then it works fine – (it’s very odd though)
Thanks – I just re-linked and it seemed to go fine this time.
That photo of J singing and pointing is priceless!
I remember going as an 8 year old to watch the Queen’s flotilla for the Silver Jubilee. Lovely pictures by the way
I wish I could’ve been there! Thanks for including the pictures.
That is so neat that you were able to witness this – stellar location, too!
How cool! It was such fun to see this event through your eyes!
I missed the Golden Jubilee so was so pleased that we got to see and participate in this
We were very fortunate especially as we hadn’t been there since very early like many people had
Wow, it looks like you had a great time! I wish we’d been brave enough to go x
Glad you had a great time. We went on Wednesday.
OOh what fun I wish I had gone ..
It’s amazing being in the UK at the moment there is so much going on.
Yes not long until the Olympics now is it
We missed all the celebrations being away, looks like London really was the place to be. The children looked full of excitement with their on the shoulder views there. thank you for joining me on Country Kids. If mine were a few years younger I would link back with you here!
Thanks for sharing in Family Frolics – we braved London this week to and it was great!
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