Queen puts aside pain to light chain of 3,000 Platinum Jubilee beacons
Queen Elizabeth II put aside pain to light a chain of more than 3,500 Platinum Jubilee beacons that stretched around the world in honour her record 70-year reign. She started the illuminations across Britain and the Commonwealth on Thursday night (02.06.22), hours after Buckingham Palace said the monarch, 96, was pulling out of Friday’s (03.06.22) thanksgiving service for her reign at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. after she had experience “discomfort”, She was seen laying her hand on a specially designed and glittering Commonwealth of Nations globe at Windsor Castle. It was part of a special du...