This tree was planted to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953.
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early part of 2008 all three plaques were renovated and re-laid on identical plinths.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
Queen Elizabeth II. A London Inheritance's post 2nd June 1953 – Coronation D...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
City of Westminster London Memorial Garden Under these trees people of all ...
Two trees newly planted to the west of the main path through this park, near the south entrance. We photographed them in 2022 but there a...
In memory of Staff Nurse Sue Garner (1959 - 2001) from her friends and colleagues in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department, the Nationa...
This tree is a memorial to the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In the low rockery on either side of the entrance at the south east corner. Normally there is a tree with this type of plaque but perhap...
We decided against transcribing the apostrophe in "tree's" and using the Latin "sic" - that would just make us look nerdy and pedantic.
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