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Britain forgets crisis to party for queen's jubilee

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Jitendra Joshi and Phil Hazlewood, Agence France-Presse 

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Royal fan Donna Werner queues on The Mall ahead of the Platinum Jubilee of Britain" s="" Queen="" Elizabeth="" in="" May="" The="" Platinum="" Jubilee="" of="" II="" will="" be="" celebrated="" from="" June="" to="" mark="" the="" anniversary="" her="" accession="" throne="" on="" Feb.="" Neil="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/overseas/06/01/20220601-platinum-jubilee-epa.jpg"/><figcaption>Royal fan Donna Werner queues on The Mall ahead of the Platinum Jubilee of Britain&#x27;s Queen Elizabeth in London, Britain, May 31, 2022. The Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II will be celebrated from June 2 to 5, 2022 to mark the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne on Feb. 6, 1952. <em>Neil Hall, EPA-EFE</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>LONDON — Putting aside a biting inflationary crisis and doubts over the monarchy&#x27;s future, Britons are set to party this week to mark a record-breaking 70 years on the throne for Queen Elizabeth II.</p><p>The Platinum Jubilee offers a 4-day respite from a surge in prices not seen since the 1970s, with accounts emerging daily of people struggling to put food on the table and clothe their children.</p><p>With 2 public holidays from Thursday and then the weekend, pubs, restaurants and retailers are hoping for a timely sales boost, after a difficult period including the COVID pandemic.</p><p>&quot;With the sun set to shine across the 4 days we&#x27;re hoping to see pub gardens filled with people raising a toast to Her Majesty the Queen and showing their support for 2 great British institutions,&quot; the British Beer and Pub Association said.</p><p>There are thousands fewer pubs in Britain than when the queen ascended the throne amid gloomy post-war rationing in 1952.</p><p>And support for the monarchy itself is an open question once the increasingly frail, 96-year-old monarch departs the scene.</p><div><strong>THE COMING CHANGE </strong></div><p>With Prince Charles taking over more of his mother&#x27;s duties for occasions of state, there is a sense that the first -- and possibly the last -- Platinum Jubilee in British history marks a turning of the page.</p><p>A poll for The Sun newspaper this week gave the queen a 91.7-percent approval rating. But Charles commanded only 67.5 percent, behind his son Prince William on 87.4 percent.</p><p>Historian Anthony Seldon, addressing a discussion at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), said the monarchy&#x27;s centuries-old power to adapt and survive should not be underestimated.</p><p>But he added: &quot;And how traumatic it&#x27;s going to be when it unravels, as well as it might in the next 2, 3, 4 years when the change comes.&quot;</p><p>Unlike the vocal Charles, the queen has rarely vented an opinion in public, and her sheer longevity means that she has been a fixture of the lives of nearly every Briton alive.</p><p>She has overcome numerous family traumas, including Charles&#x27; very public split from <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/08/28/21/the-many-takes-on-princess-diana-on-film-tv" target="_blank">Princess Diana</a>, and personal heartache when her consort <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/04/09/21/britains-prince-philip-has-died" target="_blank">Prince Philip died</a> aged 99 last year, modernizing the monarchy along the way.</p><div><strong>SPITFIRES AND SHEERAN </strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DX1mUpg2U3M?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>The jubilee events begin on Thursday with Trooping the Colour, the military parade that has officially marked the British monarch&#x27;s birthday for more than 250 years.</p><p>A fly-past will include Spitfires, the iconic fighter plane that helped win the Battle of Britain and fend off Nazi Germany in 1940.</p><p>The aerial display is expected to be watched by the queen and senior royals from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.</p><p>Numbers have been limited to &quot;working royals&quot; only, leaving no place for self-exiled grandson Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan, nor Elizabeth&#x27;s disgraced second son Prince Andrew.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/03/06/20/britains-prince-harry-and-wife-meghan-begin-farewell-royal-events">Britain&#x27;s Prince Harry and wife Meghan begin farewell royal events</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/02/16/22/no-way-back-for-prince-andrew-after-abuse-settlement-royal-watchers-say">No way back for Prince Andrew after abuse settlement, royal watchers say</a></li></ul><p>Patriotic nostalgia runs red, white and blue throughout the four days of festivities, culminating in Ed Sheeran singing &quot;God Save the Queen&quot; in front of Buckingham Palace on Sunday.</p><p>Participants in a giant public parade through central London on Sunday will be familiar to anyone acquainted with British popular culture since 1952.</p><p>But Bollywood dancers and a Caribbean carnival will also reflect the changes in British society since then, from one that was predominantly white and Christian, to one that is multicultural and multi-faith.</p><p>Britain&#x27;s Empire has given way to a Commonwealth of nations -- 14 of which still count the queen as their head of state, including Australia and Canada.</p><p>But recent royal tours of the Caribbean have laid bare growing tensions about the British monarchy&#x27;s status further afield. </p><p>&quot;This queen has been a significant glue within that Commonwealth,&quot; said Michael Cox, emeritus professor of international relations at LSE. </p><p>&quot;Whether, how successfully, Charles is going to play the same role, I don&#x27;t know,&quot; he said.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse </strong><br/> </div>

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Britain forgets crisis to party for queen's jubilee

Jitendra Joshi and Phil Hazlewood,

Agence France-Presse

Published June 01, 2022 11:25 AM PHT

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