The bunting is being put up, the children are making willow crowns and the Morris dancers are practicing in the rural English village of Bidford-on-Avon ahead of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. It’s a scene being repeated in towns and villages across Britain as the nation prepares to mark 70 years since the Queen’s coronation.

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