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Monday June 4, 2012

June 4, 2012 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Monday June 4, 2012

Jubilee pageant: Rain fails to dampen

It aimed to evoke the extravagant “water triumphs” of yore, a spectacle on the Thames to rival a Canaletto painting.

There was certainly water, too much, in fact, as driving rain drenched the diamond jubilee river pageant, the grandest procession the Thames has borne.

But to the estimated 1 million people crammed along the river’s banks, the 1,000-boat flotilla, with the Queen at its heart, was an undoubted triumph.

The armada was accompanied along the Thames by cheers from damp spectators, swaddled in rainwear and bunched under thickets of umbrellas. It was a very British occasion in all respects.

The 20,000 participants battled wind-whipped waters. Especially valiant were the rowers and kayakers following the Gloriana barge at the head of the £12m flotilla, and the soaked choir who managed a rousing rendition of Rule Britannia at the pageant’s end. The flypast of Royal Navy helicopters in diamond formation, which was supposed to provide a finale, was cancelled.

Aboard the royal barge, the lavishly decorated river cruiser Spirit of Chartwell, the Queen, with a pashmina wrapped around her shoulders and discreet rug to hand, waved at the crowds for an hour and a quarter. She shunned the specially constructed mini-thrones and opted to stand for most of the time.

Her highlight, judging from the beaming smile, was when Joey, the War Horse puppet, reared on the roof of the National theatre as the royals passed.

The Queen disembarked, no doubt with some relief, by Tower Bridge, where, back on terra firma and under a rain canopy, she watched the rest of the flotilla pass by. (Source: The Guardian) 

 

Posted in: International Tagged: 60 years, Britannia, British, Canada, Commonwealth, Elizabeth, Elizabeth II, England, Jubilee, Majesty, monarch, mountie, queen, Queen Elizabeth, royalty, UK

Thursday October 3, 2002

October 3, 2002 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator - Thursday October 3, 2002 The Royal Itinerary of the Hon. S. Copps Tickets for Queen Elizabeth's royal touchdown in Hamilton next week are gone. Half an hour after the Copps Coliseum box office opened yesterday morning, they were taping the signs on the doors. "General public tickets no longer available for Queen's visit." A lineup of about 150 people was waiting for the box office to open at 10 a.m. Limited to four tickets each, they scooped up the first 600, and the remaining 400 available ducats were gone shortly after. Although Heritage Minister Sheila Copps's office estimated "at least 6,000" seats would be available for the Oct. 10 event, box office manager Dianne Zemba said she was limited to "a bit more than 1,000 tickets," all in the upper bowl of the 17,500-seat arena. Copps's advisor, Terry Whitehead, said he was surprised only 1,000 seats were available. "My first blush when I talked to you (earlier in the morning) was 6,000, that's what my expectations were personally. Obviously I was wrong." Seating for the event is expected to be about 16,000. The sole purpose of the visit is the presentation of new colours to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the Hamilton reserve regiment of which the Queen is the colonel-in-chief. The Argylls were allotted 6,400 seats, invited elementary school children and seniors get 6,000, and multicultural groups and VIPs take 1,000, with the remainder distributed by Heritage Canada. (Source: Hamilton Spectator) Hamilton, Sheila Copps, Royal visit, Liberal, Hamilton East, Dominic Agostino, Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, royalty

By Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday October 3, 2002

The Royal Itinerary of the Hon. S. Copps

Tickets for Queen Elizabeth’s royal touchdown in Hamilton next week are gone. Half an hour after the Copps Coliseum box office opened yesterday morning, they were taping the signs on the doors. “General public tickets no longer available for Queen’s visit.”

British Monarchy Merch

A lineup of about 150 people was waiting for the box office to open at 10 a.m. Limited to four tickets each, they scooped up the first 600, and the remaining 400 available ducats were gone shortly after.

Although Heritage Minister Sheila Copps’s office estimated “at least 6,000” seats would be available for the Oct. 10 event, box office manager Dianne Zemba said she was limited to “a bit more than 1,000 tickets,” all in the upper bowl of the 17,500-seat arena.

Copps’s advisor, Terry Whitehead, said he was surprised only 1,000 seats were available. “My first blush when I talked to you (earlier in the morning) was 6,000, that’s what my expectations were personally. Obviously I was wrong.”

Seating for the event is expected to be about 16,000. The sole purpose of the visit is the presentation of new colours to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the Hamilton reserve regiment of which the Queen is the colonel-in-chief. The Argylls were allotted 6,400 seats, invited elementary school children and seniors get 6,000, and multicultural groups and VIPs take 1,000, with the remainder distributed by Heritage Canada. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)

Hamilton, Sheila Copps, Royal visit, Liberal, Hamilton East, Dominic Agostino, Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, royalty

Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: Dominic Agostino, Elizabeth II, Hamilton, Hamilton East, Liberal, Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth, Royal visit, royalty, Sheila Copps

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