Queen lights principal beacon as ceremonies take place across the Commonwealth | Platinum Jubilee
Telegraph, 03 Jun 2022
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As ceremonial moments go, it was a typically simple but powerful one. As the Queen stepped up and gently placed a gloved hand on a specially made glittering globe, a path of bright white lights flickered into action, racing along the Windsor Castle Quadrangle towards the Round Tower.
25 miles away, in London, her grandson, Prince William, was on hand, ready to light the Principal Beacon, a great “Tree of Trees” standing in front of Buckingham Palace.
To gasps from the waiting crowds, the beacon – made up of 350 tiny potted trees, all native to Britain, hanging from reinforced steel branches – began to sparkle, making it appear, as one onlooker noted, as if it was “shimmering in the wind”.
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As ceremonial moments go, it was a typically simple but powerful one. As the Queen stepped up and gently placed a gloved hand on a specially made glittering globe, a path of bright white lights flickered into action, racing along the Windsor Castle Quadrangle towards the Round Tower.
25 miles away, in London, her grandson, Prince William, was on hand, ready to light the Principal Beacon, a great “Tree of Trees” standing in front of Buckingham Palace.
To gasps from the waiting crowds, the beacon – made up of 350 tiny potted trees, all native to Britain, hanging from reinforced steel branches – began to sparkle, making it appear, as one onlooker noted, as if it was “shimmering in the wind”.
Read the full article here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/06/02/beacons-light-commonwealth-nations-honour-queens-platinum-jubilee/
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