The first British (and Australian) monarch to spend sixty-five years on the Throne, today Her Majesty the Queen celebrates her ‘Blue Sapphire Jubilee’. No public festivities have been planned, either here or in Britain. Her Majesty, it is said, will spend the day in private reflection on her estate at Sandringham.
The Royal Mint is, however, planning a celebratory coin. Fittingly,
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