Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, 2022

Accession Day

The Queen marked the seventieth anniversary of her accession quietly at her personal property of Sandringham Home in Norfolk, as 6 February can also be the anniversary of the dying
of her father, King George VI. On 5 February, the Queen hosted a reception at Sandringham for volunteers, seniors and members of the native Girls’s Institute. That very same day,
she issued an Accession Day message thanking the general public for his or her help and expressing a want that her daughter-in-law, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, would
sooner or later be generally known as Queen Consort.

Commonwealth Excursions

In frequent with the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012, the Queen remained in the UK whereas members of her household toured the Commonwealth realms. The Platinum Jubilee royal excursions attracted widespread public scrutiny as they have been among the many first visits to the Commonwealth by members of the royal household because the starting of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.

In March 2022, the Queen’s grandson Prince William and his spouse, Catherine (the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge), toured Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas in honour of the Platinum Jubilee. The Caribbean tour was critiqued within the press due to the price of journey and since photographs of the royal couple greeting youngsters via
a fence in a sports activities discipline and reviewing Jamaican troops from an open-topped Land Rover have been paying homage to British colonialism. Commonwealth excursions by Princess Anne (The Princess Royal) and her husband, Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence, to Australia in April
and Prince Charles (The Prince of Wales) and Camilla to
Canada in Might have been higher acquired.

Royal Tour of Canada

From 17 to 19 Might 2022, Charles and Camilla (The Prince
of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall) visited St. John’s and Quidi Vidi in Newfoundland and Labrador,
the Nationwide Capital Area, and Dettah and Yellowknife within the Northwest Territories in honour of the Platinum Jubilee. The brief tour targeted on topical points, together with reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, assembly with Ukrainian Canadians in the course of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, local weather change and sustainable finance. To have fun the Platinum Jubilee in Canada, the royal couple attended a reception at Rideau Corridor and unveiled a plaque at a Jubilee Backyard in Yellowknife. In St. John’s, Charles said, “As we start this Platinum Jubilee go to, which is able to take us from the most recent member of Confederation to among the many oldest communities within the North — and to a much-storied capital on the coronary heart of an important nation — my spouse and I sit up for listening to you and studying in regards to the future you’re working to construct.” Within the Northwest Territories, Charles
acknowledged the struggling of Indigenous peoples attributable to the residential faculty system, stating, “We should take heed to the reality of the lived expertise of Indigenous
peoples and we should always work to know higher their ache and struggling.” On the 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly in Rwanda, Charles noticed that Canada’s efforts
at reconciliation with Indigenous peoples present classes for different Commonwealth nations.

Celebrations in Canada

The Platinum Jubilee was celebrated with much less ceremony in Canada than Queen Elizabeth II’s earlier Silver (1977), Golden (2002) and Diamond (2012) jubilees. The federal authorities didn’t challenge Platinum Jubilee medals, though Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba,
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island issued jubilee medals on the provincial stage. There have been commemorative cash, postage stamps and museum displays in honour of the Platinum Jubilee, and lieutenant-governors and territorial commissioners opened Jubilee gardens in all provinces and territories. (See additionally Territorial Authorities in Canada.) A summer season sound and light-weight
present on Parliament Hill showcased the Queen’s excursions of Canada over the course of her reign. Jubilee beacons have been lit throughout the Commonwealth, together with in Ottawa and Toronto. Native communities additionally organized their very own celebrations, which have been usually a part of wider Victoria Day celebrations, together with fireworks, picnics and, in Ottawa, a parade of corgi canine.

Celebrations in the UK

In the UK, Platinum Jubilee celebrations occurred over a four-day vacation weekend from 2 to five June 2022. The 96-year-old Queen appeared on the Buckingham
Palace balcony along with her cousin, the Duke of Kent, in the course of the Trooping the Color Parade and with the working members of the royal household in the course of the flypast on the primary day of the celebrations. The Queen additionally lit a Platinum Jubilee beacon at Windsor
Citadel and made a closing look with Charles and Camilla and William and Catherine and their youngsters on the balcony on the finish
of the Platinum Jubilee Pageant. The Queen didn’t, nevertheless, attend different occasions over the weekend, together with the Service of Thanksgiving at St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Epsom Derby, due to “some discomfort” attributed to mobility points. Such points
had restricted the Queen’s public appearances exterior her residences in 2021–22.

The Way forward for the Monarchy

The Queen’s absence from a part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in the UK and protracted mobility challenges have prompted dialogue and debate in regards to the
way forward for the monarchy all through the Commonwealth. The Queen’s son Prince Charles and grandson Prince William, in addition to their respective spouses, Camilla and
Catherine, assumed distinguished roles within the Platinum Jubilee celebrations and Commonwealth excursions. This resulted in press and fashionable hypothesis about
how the following two reigns will unfold and whether or not help for the monarchy will proceed within the Commonwealth realms. The Queen herself mentioned the way forward for the monarchy in her Accession Day message, stating, “when, within the fullness of time, my son Charles
turns into King, I do know you’ll give him and his spouse, Camilla, the identical help that you’ve got given me.”