Queen

The United Kingdom recently celebrated Queen Elizabeth’s 70th year on the throne with great pageantry. Queen Elizabeth made an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to mark the end of the 4-day Platinum Jubilee celebrations in London, on June 5. Queen Elizabeth II owns a vast fortune since she ascended to the throne seven decades ago. Besides owning grand castles and other properties, the Queen also has an impressive collection of luxury cars. In fact, Queen’s fleet of luxury cars will make any car enthusiast…

“Let me spill the tea, ’cause I feel like nobody’s asked me about this before,” says Deleesa St. Agathe, laughing. St. Agathe is the mom of two small children and a lifestyle influencer with more than 333,000 followers on Instagram, but she’s perhaps best known as the winner of Season 2 of The Circle, Netflix’s hyper-addictive reality series about a group of contestants in a social media network called The Circle. (The Circle does not exist outside of the confines of the show itself.) Contestants periodically rank each…

Two previously unpublished short stories by Shirley Jackson, the queen of gothic fiction, have been released.Charlie Roberts and Only Stand and Wait were both published on 9 June in Strand magazine, a US-based print magazine that publishes short fiction and interviews.In Charlie Roberts, a couple are planning a dinner party, and much of the story is a conversation about who they will be inviting. Beneath their familiar banter, however, is palpable but unexpressed tension. The title refers to the owner of a pocket-knife…

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Queen Elizabeth II of Britain starred in an adorable sketch with Paddington Bear to mark her Jubilee celebration. Watch the video here. Queen Elizabeth II once again showed her fun side as she invited Paddington Bear for tea for her Jubilee celebrations. In a video sketch that aired right before the concert in honour of the British monarch's 70 years on the throne, the Queen is seen with Paddington in her Buckingham Palace. They sit across from each other for a tea party and some surprise sandwiches.The video shows a…

The last time the exterior of Buckingham Palace and the Mall was turned into a concert venue – for the Gary Barlow-curated diamond jubilee celebration in 2012 – the Queen arrived midway through: a canny bit of timing that meant she go there in time for Kylie, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney but missed Jessie J, as well as Gary Barlow and Cheryl Tweedy’s unprovoked assault on Lady Antebellum’s Need You Know.This time, she gamely took part in a sketch with Paddington Bear, tapping out the rhythm of Queen’s We Will Rock You…

Whether you’re an ardent royalist or a staunch republican, there’s one thing on which we can all agree: 70 years is a heck of a long time.On 6 February 2022, Queen Elizabeth II marked seven decades as the head of the British royal family, an unprecedented feat of longevity for the institution.The occasion is being celebrated in a Platinum Jubilee weekend, and British broadcasters are lining up to pay tribute to Britain’s longest serving monarch.There should be no shortage of fresh programming to keep royalists…

You don’t hold a single position of global celebrity for 70 years without becoming a cinematic figure too. Whether wildly fictionalised or painstakingly rendered in biographical terms, the Queen has racked up a rare screen legacy for a living historical figure. For most of her life she has been treated on film as a literal icon, as close as any actor can possibly come to the impassive crowned symbol of sundry postage stamps. Portraying her as an actual character, with inner life and conflict, would come later.My first…

Four days of celebrations honoring Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne kicked off Thursday with a display of British military traditions stretching from the days of horse and cannon to the jet age. Formal celebrations for the Platinum Jubilee began with Trooping the Color, an annual military review that has marked the sovereign’s official birthday since 1760. The queen took a salute on the balcony of Buckingham Palace and joined the working members of her family for a military flypast. Thousands of…

In 2016, the Queen was canvassed for her favourite music to mark her 90th birthday, and her selections felt like those of a regular British nonagenarian: show tunes from Oklahoma!, Fred Astaire’s Cheek to Cheek, plus hymns, military marches – and Gary Barlow.These cheerfully middlebrow tastes are well catered for in Saturday evening’s Platinum Party at the Palace, a three-hour live music spectacular held on stages in front of Buckingham Palace and screened on BBC One from 7.30pm after the jubilee pageant through Whitehall…