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Queen Victoria's musing on the week, as imagined by Tristin Hopper.
Monday
So it’s 60 years for Elizabeth, is it? Big deal. Try hanging in for the full six-oh without indoor plumbing and central heating — and with an actual empire to run.
At my Diamond Jubilee, I didn’t even leave my carriage. No way you’d catch me standing on some tacky barge for an afternoon to be gawked at like a circus bear.
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LONDON -- At 8:30 local time on a mild, wet Sunday morning, Britons are busy claiming prime viewing spots along the Thames River in anticipation of the Diamond Jubilee Pageant, the highlight of which is a 1,000-boat flotilla that is not due to set off along the famous London watercourse for another six hours.
All along the 15-kilometre stretch of the Thames in central London that will be the setting for the event, onlookers are busy setting up chairs, tents, flags — and umbrellas, lots and lots of umbrellas — as a steady drizzle pours down.
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On the eve of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the National Post's graphics department delves into her reign, by the numbers:
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