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Queen Elizabeth joined a spectacular flotilla of 1000 vessels todayfor the most dazzling display of British pageantry seen on London'sRiver Thames for 350 years, watched by cheering crowds celebratingher 60th year on the throne. The flotilla included a New Zealand hand-carved kauri waka taua. The one-tonne waka taua was shipped to London from its home in aDutch museum to help lead the procession of boats, and paddled byMaori wearing traditional cloaks. Pealing bells greeted the flotilla as the Queen's gilded royalbarge sailed alongside a colourful and eclectic array of boats fromleisure cruisers and yachts to a Hawaiian war canoe and Venetiangondolas. Typically inclement British weather failed to dampen enthusiasm,with hundreds of thousands of onlookers, waving Union Jack flags,massed on the riverbanks to catch a glimpse of the procession alongthe 11 kilometre route.
The queen, wearing a silver and white dress with a matching coat,smiled broadly and waved to the crowds from the royal barge, TheSpirit of Chartwell, alongside her 90-year-old husband PrincePhilip. They were accompanied on the barge by heir-to-the-throne PrinceCharles, his eldest son Prince William and new wife DuchessCatherine, a global fashion trendsetter who wore a vivid redAlexander McQueen dress and matching hat. Up and down the country, organisers said millions of peopleattended diamond jubilee street parties in honour of the86-year-old sovereign, the only British monarch after QueenVictoria to have sat on the throne for 60 years. "We're English, we know what the weather is like.
We really don'tcare if we get wet you know - it's the jubilee, it's the Queen, soit's nice to come up and celebrate it," said Jackie, a 39-year-oldsales consultant who travelled across southern England to watch theThames pageant. There were even vessels from the 1940 evacuation of British andAllied troops from Dunkirk in northern France - a famous rescueperformed by crafts of all shapes and sizes and a celebrated pieceof British history. Organisers said Sunday's river pageant, reminiscent of a Canalettocanvas from the 18th century, was the largest of its kind since asimilar spectacle was held for King Charles II and his consortCatherine of Braganza in 1662. Churchill and Eisenhower Other craft included Motor Torpedo Boat 102 on which Allied Forcescommander General Dwight Eisenhower and British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill inspected warships before the 1944 D-Day invasionof Nazi-occupied France.
The flotilla passed under 14 bridges and past landmarks includingthe Houses of Parliament, St Paul's Cathedral, and the Tower ofLondon, after the picturesque Tower Bridge bascules were raised insalute. Another boat taking part, Amazon, featured in diamond jubileecelebrations for Queen Victoria, Elizabeth'sgreat-great-grandmother, held in 1897 when Britain's empire spannedmuch of the globe. Nevertheless, interest in the pageant and affection for QueenElizabeth extended to former colonies such as Canada. I am Network Switches writer, reports some information about wholesale paper plates , used shotgun barrels.
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