Our picture shows Queen Elizabeth II in the River Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant which took place in the cold and pouring rain on 3 June. Diamond represents 60 years.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
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2012 Commemorations - Blackheath
The names on the outer circumference sound as though they are areas of Blackh...
Bomber Command Memorial
The campaign to bomb civilians was so controversial that the bombers were giv...
Cutty Sark Gardens - Opening
The plaque was unveiled by Her Majesty The Queen to mark the opening of Cutty...
Diamond Jubilee QEII - Jefcoate tree
This tree is in the borough of Wandsworth. There are 32 Greater London boroug...
Ealing Town Hall restoration
{Beneath an emblem reading "Queen's Diamond Jubilee 60":} The restoration of ...
Other Subjects
Prince of Wales's typhoid recovery
In 1871 the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) suffered an attack of typhoid fever (the illness of which his father had died 10 years earlier) while at his home, Sandringham in Norfolk. To everyon...
King Henry II
King of England 1154–89. Born in France, son of Empress Matilda. The first of the Plantagenets monarchs. First friend and then murderer of Thomas Becket. Father of Richard I and King John - for a m...
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
Born Montagu House, Whitehall. Married Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in 1935. Mother of Richard Duke of Gloucester. President, and from 1937 Patron, of the Guild of the Royal Hospital of St Bart...
Empress Matilda / Empress Maud
Maud / Maude / Matilda was the daughter of King Henry I. Married aged 12 to the future Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V, she moved to Germany and then Italy. When her husband died, 1125, her father move...
Greenwich Palace / Palace of Placentia
The palace was built, as Bella Court, by Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, regent to the child king Henry VI. When the king married Margaret of Anjou Humphrey fell out of favour and died in prison in 1...
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Sir Edward Elgar - W14
W14, Avonmore Road, 51
London County Council Sir Edward Elgar, 1857 - 1934, composer, lived here, 1890 - 1891.