Britain forgets crisis to party for queen's jubilee

LONDON - Putting aside a biting inflationary crisis and doubts over the monarchy's future, Britons are set to party this week tofrom a surge in prices not seen since the 1970s, with accounts emerging daily of people struggling to put food on the table and clothe their children.

There are thousands fewer pubs in Britain than when the queen ascended the throne amid gloomy post-war rationing in 1952. Historian Anthony Seldon, addressing a discussion at the London School of Economics and Political Science , said the monarchy's centuries-old power to adapt and survive should not be underestimated.

She has overcome numerous family traumas, including Charles' very public split from Princess Diana, and personal heartache whenThe jubilee events begin on Thursday with Trooping the Colour, the military parade that has officially marked the British monarch's birthday for more than 250 years. Numbers have been limited to"working royals" only, leaving no place for self-exiled grandson Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan, nor Elizabeth's disgraced second son Prince Andrew.

But Bollywood dancers and a Caribbean carnival will also reflect the changes in British society since then, from one that was predominantly white and Christian, to one that is multicultural and multi-faith.

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