Next year, as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, there's to be a royal pageant of maybe 1,000 boats along the Thames. And according to an otherwise rather good article on the history of the Thames in The Telegraph, the route was from "Putney to Greenwich". For political balance here's The Guardian's take on the event, and they give the starting point as Putney as well.
Fantastic, I think: I can practice my royal wave and as HM passes I can salute her in style.
Closer reading of the route showed alas this to be a flexible definition of Putney to mean, basically, Battersea, as shown by the official route below:
I don't think they have this sort of thing in mind:
4 comments:
Oh, I have to do that. Possibly my earliest memory is watching the queen's coronation (age 4 at the time - me not Elizabeth.) I would love to sail in her Diamond Jubilee. Can I do it in a Laser?
I've registered my Laser at the event website. Apparently there is some kind of "selection" process. Will it help if I say I know one of the Middletons?
Maybe I should buy and then register my inflatable kayak? (I was going to say blow-up kayak but that might not be the right word association for HM's security team)
I could add that I know someone who knows the Middletons (a bit of background explanation for this bit would of course be helpful)
You want me to explain who the Middletons are? Have you been living under a rock?
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