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Let’s get this party started

IT’LL be a year-long party for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, it was announced last week. Although the anniversary falls on February 6, the main event is the four-day bank-holiday weekend on June 2–5.

Until then, Fortnum & Mason), tracing history from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II. Preparations are in hand for the presentation of commemorative medals to frontline members of the police, fire, emergency services, prison services and the Armed Forces, too, and The Queen’s Green Canopy has been under way since October, for which anyone from individuals to schools and city councils can plant a tree sustainably and pin it on the Jubilee tree map ().

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