LONDON, June 30 ― Giant marionettes, fantastical beasts and circus performers will form the centrepiece of celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne, organisers said yesterday.
The British government has already announced a four-day public holiday weekend to mark the reign of Britain's longest-serving monarch, who turned 95 earlier this year. The Sunday pageant has been designed to tell the story of “the second Elizabethan age”, 500 years after the first which was noted for Shakespeare and the discovery of new worlds.
Performances will take in the post-war austerity of the 1950s and the Swinging Sixties of rock and roll and space discovery, then the choice to join Europe in the 1970s. As well as “monumental heraldic figures” reflecting royal history over 1,000 years, the parade will include a “hatch dragon” bigger than a double-decker bus.
The event will be privately financed by individual and corporate donors and is expected to cost between £10 million and £15 million, which Coleridge said was in line with previous jubilees going back to queen Victoria.
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