Amazing time-lapse video from Jubilee weekend from ITN video-journalist Ben Begley. I wonder how many people standing on the embankment had wished the actual Queen’s Jubilee Thames pageant had only lasted 90 seconds. See more on Guardian Travel
Osborne U-turn on his own name…
Ambitious thoughts linked to brain tumours in women…
Anders Behring Breivik launches a fragrance…
Old lady mugged for just £1.76…
James Nesbitt lookalike files for bankruptcy…
and Jeremy Hunt and James Murdoch secretly flatmatesRead all about it! All the news you missed during the jubilee knees-up by David Mitchell
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The Prince of Wales shares his thoughts on his ‘Mama’s’ achievements in her role as monarch over the last six decades in a personal tribute to the Queen
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A pictorial timeline of Elizabeth II’s reign ahead of her diamond jubilee:
2 June 1953: Queen Elizabeth II following her coronation. The date of the Queen’s coronation was chosen so as not to clash with the Derby or fall on an unlucky day. The crowning of the monarch proved to be a milestone in modern British history and with an estimated TV viewing audience of 20 million, it ushered in the age of the major televised event
Next week will see thousands of royal jubilee street parties up and down the country. This is how they did it 35 years ago in Stowell Street… Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
Well done HRH! A pre-diamond jubilee surge in royalism means the British royal family is enjoying record popularity. See the breakdown in numbers from 1950’s to present. Photograph: Carl Court/PA
Was it all down to Wills and Kate’s wedding? Read our thinkpiece behind the figures here:
“My sense is that Buckingham Palace feels pretty comfortable at the moment. The Cambridges are coming on. And the jubilee, barring a catastrophe, will work to their advantage,” said Oxford University historian Dr Frank Prochaska, author of The Republic of Britain. “Don’t forget, they are very clever at adjusting and they have been reasonably successful.”
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Painter Lisa Burton poses with the latest waxwork of Queen Elizabeth II at Madame Tussauds. This is Madame Tussauds’ 22nd model of Her Majesty - see how she’s changed through the years in our gallery
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