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Big Jubilee Read: the list of 70 books that celebrates Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee

The list incorporates novels from across the commonwealth, as well as short story and poetry collections published since 1952.

The screen in Piccadilly Circus, London, celebrates the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne. AP

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Seventy books from across the Commonwealth have been selected to make up a reading list commemorating Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee.

The Big Jubilee Read was created by BBC Arts and The Reading Agency. It was compiled by librarians, booksellers and literature experts based on readers' recommendations from 31 countries.

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The list incorporates 10 books that represent each of the seven decades of the queen's rule. It includes novels as well as short story and poetry collections published since 1952. Some featured works are Salman Rushdie ’s Midnight’s Children , Margaret Atwood ’s The Handmaid’s Tale , A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess , and Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

Booker Prize winners from the past three years, including Bernardine Evaristo ’s Girl, Woman, Other, Douglas Stuart ’s Shuggie Bain and The Promise by Damon Galgut are also on the list.

There are a few glaring omissions, however.

Among them are J K Rowling ’s Harry Potter books.

Susheila Nasta, emeritus professor of modern and contemporary literature at Queen Mary University of London, said there were discussions on whether to include Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone . Ultimately, the committee omitted the book as it pared down the 152 recommendations.

“Lots of fantastic books were suggested for the list," Nasta told BBC Radio 4. But the feeling was that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone "was primarily a children’s book”.

“In terms of the space over that decade, which was the '90s when more and more books were coming out across the Commonwealth, it was decided to make space for a book that was good and equally well received,” Nasta said.

Rowling has come under criticism in the past two years over controversial comments she has made regarding transgender issues.

Other books that didn’t make the final list include The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien and Doris Lessing ’s The Golden Notebook.

“The Golden Notebook … was a huge influence on me, but we had to drop some … there were two books for every place.”

The complete Big Jubilee Read list

From 1952 to 1961

  • The Palm-Wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola (1952, Nigeria)
  • The Hills Were Joyful Together – Roger Mais (1953, Jamaica)
  • In the Castle of My Skin – George Lamming (1953, Barbados)
  • My Bones and My Flute – Edgar Mittelholzer (1955, Guyana)
  • The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (1956, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
  • The Guide – RK Narayan (1958, India)
  • To Sir, With Love – ER Braithwaite (1959, Guyana)
  • One Moonlit Night – Caradog Prichard (1961, Wales)
  • A House for Mr Biswas – VS Naipaul (1961, Trinidad and Tobago/England)
  • Sunlight on a Broken Column – Attia Hosain (1961, India)

From 1962 to 1971

  • A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (1962, England)
  • The Interrogation – JMG Le Clezio (1963, France/Mauritius)
  • The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark (1963, Scotland)
  • Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe (1964, Nigeria)
  • Death of a Naturalist – Seamus Heaney (1966, Northern Ireland)
  • Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (1966, Dominica/Wales)
  • A Grain of Wheat – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1967, Kenya)
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay (1967, Australia)
  • The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born – Ayi Kwei Armah (1968, Ghana)
  • When Rain Clouds Gather – Bessie Head (1968, Botswana/South Africa)

From 1972 to 1981

  • The Nowhere Man – Kamala Markandaya (1972, India)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carre (1974, England)
  • The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough (1977, Australia)
  • The Crow Eaters – Bapsi Sidhwa (1978, Pakistan)
  • The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch (1978, England)
  • Who Do You think You Are? – Alice Munro (1978, Canada)
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (1979, England)
  • Tsotsi – Athol Fugard (1980, South Africa)
  • Clear Light of Day – Anita Desai (1980, India)
  • Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (1981, England/India)

From 1982 to 1991

  • Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally (1982, Australia)
  • Beka Lamb – Zee Edgell (1982, Belize)
  • The Bone People – Keri Hulme (1984, New Zealand)
  • The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (1985, Canada)
  • Summer Lightning – Olive Senior (1986, Jamaica)
  • The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera (1987, New Zealand)
  • The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, England)
  • Omeros – Derek Walcott (1990, Saint Lucia)
  • The Adoption Papers – Jackie Kay (1991, Scotland)
  • Cloudstreet – Tim Winton (1991, Australia)

From 1992 to 2001

  • The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (1992, Canada/Sri Lanka)
  • The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields (1993, Canada)
  • Paradise – Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994, Tanzania/England)
  • A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (1995, India/Canada)
  • Salt – Earl Lovelace (1996, Trinidad and Tobago)
  • The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (1997, India)
  • The Blue Bedspread – Raj Kamal Jha (1999, India)
  • Disgrace – J M Coetzee (1999, South Africa/Australia)
  • White Teeth – Zadie Smith (2000, England)
  • Life of Pi – Yann Martel (2001, Canada)

From 2002 to 2011

  • Small Island – Andrea Levy (2004, England)
  • The Secret River – Kate Grenville (2005, Australia)
  • The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (2005, Australia)
  • Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006, Nigeria)
  • A Golden Age – Tahmima Anam (2007, Bangladesh)
  • The Boat – Nam Le (2008, Australia)
  • Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel (2009, England)
  • The Book of Night Women – Marlon James (2009, Jamaica)
  • The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna (2010, Sierra Leone/Scotland)
  • Chinaman – Shehan Karunatilaka (2010, Sri Lanka)

From 2012 to 2021

  • Our Lady of the Nile – Scholastique Mukasonga (2012, Rwanda)
  • The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton (2013, New Zealand)
  • Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue (2016, Cameroon)
  • The Bone Readers – Jacob Ross (2016, Grenada)
  • How We Disappeared – Jing-Jing Lee (2019, Singapore)
  • Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo (2019, England)
  • The Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo (2019, Malaysia)
  • Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart (2020, Scotland)
  • A Passage North – Anuk Arudpragasam (2021, Sri Lanka)
  • The Promise – Damon Galgut (2021, South Africa)

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Jubilee books special: our favourite 50 novels of the past 70 years

For the queen’s platinum jubilee, our critics pick the best novels of her reign from britain and the commonwealth.

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The Queen’s reading habits are a bit of mystery, beyond her enthusiasm for the Racing Post , but the past 70 years have been a glorious time for readers of fiction. We asked a panel of Times critics to name their favourite novels of the past 70 years, sticking to only British and Commonwealth talent. (Yes, there are some Irish writers but we’re including them because British and Irish are so closely entwined).

It’s an eclectic mix ranging from the works of highminded Nobel laureates to pure comic fizziness, from murderous mayhem to zinging social satire. And yes, Jilly Cooper’s rumpy-pumpy bonkbuster, Riders , finds its way on to the list. Something for the discerning equestrian minded reader.

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Titles from Bernardine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood, John le Carré, Marlon James, Seamus Heaney, Hilary Mantel and Andrea Levy part of the BBC and The Reading Agency's Big Jubilee Read.

View all 70 titles through the decades on our Reading Groups for Everyone website. BBC Arts and The Reading Agency have announced the titles for the Big Jubilee Read, a reading for pleasure campaign celebrating great reads from celebrated authors from across the Commonwealth to coincide with Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The full list can be found here. The seventy titles consist of ten books from each decade of Her Majesty The Queen's reign, offering a brilliant selection of beautiful and thrilling writing produced by authors from a wide range of Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, UK. Renowned authors Margaret Atwood, E. R. Braithwaite, Anthony Burgess, John le Carré, Bernardine Evaristo, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Marlon James, Hilary Mantel, Andrea Levy, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Douglas Stuart, Derek Walcott, and Markus Zusak are included. The campaign enables readers to engage in the discovery and celebration of great books and shines a spotlight on lesser-known books and authors that deserve recognition. The books were chosen by an expert panel of librarians, booksellers and literature specialists from a "readers' choice" longlist. Delivered with public libraries, reading groups, publishers, bookshops, and authors, the Big Jubilee Read campaign will use the proven power of reading to unite the public around the shared stories that define our social and cultural heritage. It will be supported by events and activities in libraries and bookshops, and there are resources available for reading groups across the country, which can be found here . Additionally, there is programming reflecting the Big Jubilee Read across the BBC, including on BBC Two's Between the Covers and BBC Radio 4's Front Row, which hosted a special programme on Monday 18 April from Birmingham Library, presented by Samira Ahmed with guests including author Kit de Waal and the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah. You can catch up on the episode now on BBC Sounds. Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners features on BBC iPlayer , having been broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 10 April in an episode of The Read. The Big Jubilee Read campaign will be delivered in partnership with BBC Arts and The Reading Agency. It received funding of £185,000 from Arts Council England and is supported by Libraries Connected and the Booksellers Association. It follows on from other collaborations between The Reading Agency and the BBC, including the national Big Read survey in 2003. Suzy Klein, Head of Arts and Classical Music TV at the BBC said:

"Nineteen years on from the Big Read, the Queen's Platinum Jubilee feels like the perfect opportunity to foreground some of the greatest writing from across the Commonwealth in our Big Jubilee Read. The list of 70 books - ten for each decade of Elizabeth II' s reign - is a real opportunity to discover stories from across continents and taking us through the decades, books that we might never have otherwise read, and reading authors whose work deserves a spotlight to be shone on it. It's a really exciting way to share the love of books with readers of all ages, and to give book groups and book borrowers a plethora of great titles to try, borrow, share and discuss."

Karen Napier, CEO, The Reading Agency said:

"We're thrilled to be partnering with BBC to celebrate the proven power of reading at this historic moment of national celebration. The Reading Agency hugely values the support of our library partners bringing this fantastic book list to life in the heart of communities across the country this summer."

See the list of books and discover resources for your reading group. Follow the latest developments on social media: @ReadingAgency @BBCArts @ACE_National #BigJubileeRead

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The God of Small Things to Shuggie Bain: the Queen’s jubilee book list

Expert panel selects 70 books from across the Commonwealth marking the seven decades of her reign

The Handmaid’s Tale, The God of Small Things and A Clockwork Orange are among 70 books from across the Commonwealth chosen to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee.

Ten books for each of the seven decades of the Queen’s reign were selected by a panel of librarians, booksellers and literature experts from readers’ recommendations spanning 31 countries.

The Big Jubilee Read includes “brilliant, beautiful and thrilling writing” in novels, anthologies of short stories and poetry published since 1952, said the organisers. They were “shared stories that define our social and cultural heritage”.

But there was controversy over some omissions, including JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series and JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

Susheila Nasta, the emeritus professor of modern and contemporary literature at Queen Mary University of London, said there had been a “big discussion” over JK Rowling as the panel whittled down 152 recommendations to a final list of 70.

“Lots of fantastic books were suggested for the list but the feeling in the end was that … [Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone] was primarily a children’s book,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“In terms of the space over that decade, which was the 90s when more and more books were coming out across the Commonwealth, it was decided to make space for a book that was good and equally well received.”

In the past two years, Rowling has faced criticism over her rejection of the phrase “people who menstruate” instead of the word “women”, with some accusing her of transphobia.

A number of high-profile books, such as Doris Lessing’s 1962 novel The Golden Notebook, also failed to make the final list, said Nasta. “The Golden Notebook … was a huge influence on me, but we had to drop some … There were two books for every place.”

The Big Jubilee Read, created by BBC Arts and The Reading Agency, embraces prize-winning books such as Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall , Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo and Seamus Heaney’s 1966 Nobel prize-winning poetry collection Death of a Naturalist.

The winners of the Booker prize in the past two years – Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart and The Promise by Damon Galgut – are included in the final decade.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel, whose stage and screen adaptations won Olivier awards and Oscars, is on the 1992-2001 list.

Earlier titles include A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul , The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie and Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros.

The Big Jubilee Read campaign will include events and activities in libraries and bookshops, with resources available for reading groups across the country.

Suzy Klein, the head of arts and classical music TV at the BBC, said the list was “a real opportunity to discover stories from across continents and taking us through the decades, books that we might never have otherwise read, and reading authors whose work deserves a spotlight to be shone on it.”

The Big Jubilee Read list

The Palm-Wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola (1952, Nigeria)

The Hills Were Joyful Together – Roger Mais (1953, Jamaica)

In the Castle of My Skin – George Lamming (1953, Barbados)

My Bones and My Flute – Edgar Mittelholzer (1955, Guyana)

The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (1956, Trinidad and Tobago/England)

The Guide – RK Narayan (1958, India)

To Sir, With Love – ER Braithwaite (1959, Guyana)

One Moonlit Night – Caradog Prichard (1961, Wales)

A House for Mr Biswas – VS Naipaul (1961, Trinidad and Tobago/England

Sunlight on a Broken Column – Attia Hosain (1961, India)

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (1962, England)

The Interrogation – JMG Le Clézio (1963, France/Mauritius)

The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark (1963, Scotland)

Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe (1964, Nigeria)

Death of a Naturalist – Seamus Heaney (1966, Northern Ireland)

Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (1966, Dominica/Wales)

A Grain of Wheat – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1967, Kenya)

Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay (1967, Australia)

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born – Ayi Kwei Armah (1968, Ghana)

When Rain Clouds Gather – Bessie Head (1968, Botswana/South Africa)

The Nowhere Man – Kamala Markandaya (1972, India)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré (1974, England)

The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough (1977, Australia)

The Crow Eaters – Bapsi Sidhwa (1978, Pakistan)

The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch (1978, England)

Who Do You think You Are? – Alice Munro (1978, Canada)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (1979, England)

Tsotsi – Athol Fugard (1980, South Africa)

Clear Light of Day – Anita Desai (1980, India)

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (1981, England/India)

Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally (1982, Australia)

Beka Lamb – Zee Edgell (1982, Belize)

The Bone People – Keri Hulme (1984, New Zealand)

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (1985, Canada)

Summer Lightning – Olive Senior (1986, Jamaica)

The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera (1987, New Zealand)

The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, England)

Omeros – Derek Walcott (1990, Saint Lucia)

The Adoption Papers – Jackie Kay (1991, Scotland)

Cloudstreet – Tim Winton (1991, Australia)

The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (1992, Canada/Sri Lanka)

The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields (1993, Canada)

Paradise – Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994, Tanzania/England)

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (1995, India/Canada)

Salt – Earl Lovelace (1996, Trinidad and Tobago)

The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (1997, India)

The Blue Bedspread – Raj Kamal Jha (1999, India)

Disgrace – JM Coetzee (1999, South Africa/Australia)

White Teeth – Zadie Smith (2000, England)

Life of Pi – Yann Martel (2001, Canada)

Small Island – Andrea Levy (2004, England)

The Secret River – Kate Grenville (2005, Australia)

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (2005, Australia)

Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006, Nigeria)

A Golden Age – Tahmima Anam (2007, Bangladesh)

The Boat – Nam Le (2008, Australia)

Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel (2009, England)

The Book of Night Women – Marlon James (2009, Jamaica)

The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna (2010, Sierra Leone/Scotland)

Chinaman – Shehan Karunatilaka (2010, Sri Lanka)

Our Lady of the Nile – Scholastique Mukasonga (2012, Rwanda)

The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton (2013, New Zealand)

Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue (2016, Cameroon)

The Bone Readers – Jacob Ross (2016, Grenada)

How We Disappeared – Jing-Jing Lee (2019, Singapore)

Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo (2019, England)

The Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo (2019, Malaysia)

Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart (2020, Scotland)

A Passage North – Anuk Arudpragasam (2021, Sri Lanka)

The Promise – Damon Galgut (2021, South Africa)

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Written by Robert Jobson, Katie Nicholl and Tom Parker Bowles, the fully illustrated coffee table book celebrates the life and reign of Her Majesty, exploring how she has provided the nation with leadership during times of political, economic and social turbulence. Expect beautiful images from a number of milestone events and details about her extraordinary life.

Available to purchase from Thursday 12th May, the book will also include exclusive content by Tom Parker Bowles – a renowned food critic and the Duchess of Cornwall's son. In the album, he will provide readers with an insight into the royals' dining tastes and traditions, delving into the history of royal celebrations over the years.

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Elsewhere, the book will also feature exclusive content about the Platinum Jubilee Pageant itself and will include a programme of events that readers can follow from home over the Jubilee weekend. It is the only official book published for the Queen's Jubilee, so make sure not to miss out when it hits shelves.

"Our company has a long history of producing publications for major royal celebrations, " Richard Freed, Founder of St James's House and the associated SJH Group said. "The Platinum Jubilee Pageant is a once-in-lifetime event."

The book is available to pre-order now for £49.95 from St James's House . It will officially launch on Thursday 12th May.

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Read our latest coverage of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations .

The service at St. Paul’s Cathedral is the highlight of Friday’s jubilee events.

LONDON — With fanfares, pageantry and the ceremonial precision at which Britain excels, Queen Elizabeth II’s seven decades as monarch were celebrated in her absence on Friday at a religious service that saw a rare, carefully choreographed appearance for Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, alongside other members of the royal family.

After three appearances on Thursday at the start of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Queen Elizabeth did not feel well enough to attend a service of thanksgiving at St. Paul’s Cathedral, an event that united the elite of the British establishment in paying tribute to the longest-reigning sovereign in the country’s history.

Britain’s embattled prime minister, Boris Johnson, read from the New Testament at the service. And although the jubilee celebrations were a brief respite for him from political pressures, he was reminded of them upon his arrival at St. Paul’s when some bystanders booed him as he entered. Speculation is growing that the prime minister, who was fined by the police for attending a party at Downing Street that violated pandemic lockdown rules, will face a no-confidence vote in the coming weeks.

Prince Harry and Meghan, however, were cheered when they arrived. Their entrance was carefully managed to ensure that it came before that of Harry’s father, Prince Charles, and of his brother, Prince William, who were then seated some distance away and at the front of the cathedral.

Prince Harry gave up his royal duties in 2020, when he and Meghan left the country for Southern California. In an interview last year with Oprah Winfrey, Harry described his father and brother as being trapped in their roles, and relations have appeared frosty since.

Yet despite being relegated to the second tier of royalty in the seating plan on Friday, Harry and Meghan were allowed to proceed down the aisle of the cathedral, prompting many necks to crane among the specially invited congregation of about 400 people.

Royal watchers interpreted that as a sign of the queen’s determination to involve her grandson in the jubilee celebrations, and not to exclude him and Meghan from the extended family. Inside the cathedral, the television cameras did not capture any images of interaction between Prince Harry and his brother or father.

With the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, unable to attend because of illness, the task of delivering the sermon fell to the archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell. He directed part of it to the queen, who was believed to be watching on television.

Referring to her well-known love of horse racing, the archbishop thanked the monarch for “staying the course,” noting that “race of life” was more like a long-distance course than a sprint. “Your Majesty, we are sorry that you are not here with us this morning, but we are so glad that you are still in the saddle,” he said, adding: “We are glad that there is still more to come.”

Aside from the queen, there was one other significant absentee: Prince Andrew, who — scarred by his association with Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender — has been sent into a form of internal exile. Andrew had planned to attend, but Buckingham Palace said on Thursday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus and would miss the event.

The service of thanksgiving on Friday was intended to exemplify the queen’s special role in British life as both head of state and head of the Church of England. Also invited were diplomats, charity workers and leading politicians.

In addition to Mr. Johnson, his living predecessors — John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May — attended along with their spouses. Keir Starmer, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, was also present, as was London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan.

After an hourlong service, guests were invited to a reception behind closed doors at London’s Guildhall, where, according to the BBC, they were served smoked Norfolk duck breast, smoked salmon, beetroot shortbread and clotted-cream vanilla ice cream.

— Stephen Castle

In the choreography of royal events, Harry and Meghan’s presence is notable.

LONDON — The most eagerly anticipated guests at Friday’s thanksgiving service arrived well before the senior members of the royal family. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, walked into St. Paul’s Cathedral shortly after 11 a.m., turning every head in the vaulting nave as the couple walked, hand in hand, to their seats.

In the meticulous choreography of royal ceremonies, there was nothing accidental about their highly visible arrival. The couple, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, were given their own moment, drawing a loud cheer from the crowd gathered outside St. Paul’s and the rapt attention of everyone seated inside.

It was the first official royal outing for Harry and Meghan since early March 2020, when they attended a service for the British Commonwealth at Westminster Abbey, shortly before decamping Britain for Canada, and later, Southern California. That service was memorable for the palpably chilly atmosphere between Harry; his brother, Prince William; and their father, Prince Charles. The three barely acknowledged one another.

Harry and Meghan no longer have a formal role as senior royals, a diminished status evident in the very different entrances made by Charles and William after the couple had taken their seats.

As the two princes made their formal entrance at St. Paul’s, proceeding through the nave with their wives, BBC’s cameras did not capture any interaction between them and Harry or Meghan. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were seated a couple of rows behind the senior family members.

— Mark Landler

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Harry and Meghan look the part of royals, but with a rebellious twist.

Perhaps the most striking thing about the appearance of Prince Harry and Meghan at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Friday was how unstriking it was. At least at first.

From Meghan’s tilted white hat to her neat cream trench dress and pumps to Harry’s morning coat, royal dress protocol was entirely obeyed. It wasn’t exactly an olive branch to the royal family, but it also wasn’t that far off. It almost looked as if their time in California had never happened.

“Looked” being, of course, the operative word because Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, had actually done something fairly radical.

On the surface, the visuals were entirely of a piece with the subsequent appearance of Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge — the prince in the morning dress uniform of the royal family and Catherine in a butter yellow coatdress, a tilted Phillip Treacy hat, a trio of roses tucked under the brim on one side, and her hair, like Meghan’s, in a low bun.

Both women seemed to have taken a fashion lesson from the queen, adopting her favored style of all-in-one-shade dressing, this time in the light tones of a fresh start, and peace (or at least détente). Familial, and otherwise.

But while Catherine’s dress had been made by Emilia Wickstead, a young British designer, and thus served as a predictable moment of national fashion diplomacy, Meghan’s coat — as well as the skirt and shirt beneath it, the gloves, shoes and hat — came from Dior haute couture.

Given the royal family’s longstanding and accepted role in supporting British design by wearing British designers — especially during the most-watched public moments of their lives — Meghan’s decision to eschew a local brand for a storied French name was, sartorially speaking, an unmistakable declaration of independence.

Like Diana, Princess of Wales, who seemed to revel in European luxury fashion after her divorce from Prince Charles, Meghan is now free to wear what she wants. And given all that has gone on, her willingness to toe the royal family line may extend only so far.

— Vanessa Friedman

London’s streets were crowded with visitors and locals enjoying the summer sunshine and a precious few days off to honor Queen Elizabeth II on Friday afternoon, the second of a four-day Platinum Jubilee celebrating her 70 years on the throne.

And in Hyde Park, some also reflected on the past and future of a royal household that has been embodied for seven decades by one woman.

“She has always done her duty, she has always tried to do her best for Great Britain and she has been such a stable figure throughout,” said Marina Burns, 60, who had traveled to London from Oxfordshire to meet her daughter for the celebrations.

How such sentiment will carry over when the queen’s successor, Prince Charles, eventually assumes the throne is an open question.

“Prince Charles, I am sure, is a nice enough gentleman, but it doesn’t have the same feeling,” Ms. Burns said.

Like some other Britons, Ms. Burns is looking to a younger generation of the royal family, and said she felt that Prince William — who is next in line to the throne after Charles — and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, might be more likely to inspire devotion in the way that Queen Elizabeth, 96, has.

“But I do think it feels like the end of an era of the old kings and queens of Europe when she goes,” Ms. Burns said.

Catherine Cooke, 48, and her daughter Lissy, 9, were eating cupcakes on a park bench and talking about the sights they had seen during a two-day visit to the city from their home in North Hampton for the jubilee.

Ms. Cooke came to London 20 years ago for the queen’s Golden Jubilee with her eldest son when he was a newborn, then came 10 years ago with her middle daughter, and now had Lissy by her side. In some ways, she said, it felt like a time of transition for both the nation and herself.

“I have a great respect for the queen — she’s so elegant, so unifying, such a lady,” Ms. Cooke said. “The rest of the family, not so much.”

Ms. Cooke wondered whether William would be a more suitable sovereign than Charles, his father. The nation, she said, needed someone “a bit more in touch, and perhaps he can be that.”

Greg Phelps, 53, from the United States, and Erwin Kunnen, 60, from the Netherlands, seemed to have picked up on the same idea while visiting London for the jubilee.

Referring to the queen, Mr. Phelps said, “Once she passes, how does that change the monarchy?”

Mr. Phelps and Mr. Kunnen both questioned whether Prince Charles would have the same unifying effect as his mother.

“If you want the monarchy to be relevant again, is he going to be a bit too old?” Mr. Phelps said. “Will a younger generation go, ‘I don’t relate to this guy?’”

“But as an American,” he concluded with a laugh, “it’s not my problem.”

— Megan Specia

In pictures: Queen Elizabeth’s seven decades as monarch.

Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, celebrating her 70 years on the British throne, is above all a tribute to one of history’s great acts of constancy.

Her reign has spanned virtually the entire post-World War II era, making her a witness to cultural upheavals from the Beatles to Brexit, technological advances from wireless radio to Zoom, and political leaders from Winston Churchill to Boris Johnson.

From the sepia-tinted pictures of her coronation in 1953 to her emotional televised address to a nation in the grip of the pandemic in 2020, the queen has been an abiding presence in British life for as long as most Britons have been alive.

Her triumphs — history-making visits to South Africa and Ireland — have lifted the country. Her sorrows — the fraught days after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a Paris car crash, or the Covid-enforced isolation of her grieving for her deceased husband, Prince Philip — have become the nation’s sorrows.

Perhaps no living person has met so many famous people, a gallery of heroes and villains ranging from Nelson Mandela to Vladimir V. Putin. But it is her countless meetings with ordinary people that have left perhaps the most lasting imprint of the longest serving British monarch in history.

Will shifts in Australia and New Zealand lead to a ‘divorce’ from the monarchy?

In some countries in the Commonwealth, the global group of former British colonies, the debate over whether to sever ties with Britain’s royal family has been fierce . In 2020, Barbados decided to remove the queen as its head of state and become a republic, and other Caribbean countries may follow.

Yet in Australia and New Zealand — both of which Britain began to settle and brutally colonize in the 18th century — questions about whether to keep the monarchy have long been ignored in favor of bread-and-butter political issues.

“It’s not something a lot of New Zealanders wake up worrying about,” said Simon O’Connor, a conservative member of Parliament and former chairman of Monarchy New Zealand, a group that encourages New Zealanders to support the monarchy.

However, a change in Australia’s government and Indigenous calls for constitutional reform have prompted a surge in interest in the role of the monarchy.

Both Australia and New Zealand have complicated feelings toward Britain.

Australia was once used to house British prisoners, inspiring a measure of resentment to this day. And although the country rejected becoming a republic in a 1999 referendum, polls now indicate that the public narrowly favors the idea.

New Zealand maintains closer cultural ties with Britain. It is almost a rite of passage for young middle-class New Zealanders to spend time working there, and a substantial plurality of the public opposes becoming a republic.

Support for the monarchy in both nations is often lukewarm and centered on Queen Elizabeth, and many people expect an uptick in republicanism after she dies.

In Australia, the election last month of Anthony Albanese as prime minister may renew the public’s interest in constitutional questions, which inevitably will raise questions about the monarchy’s role.

In his first speech after being elected, Mr. Albanese — a committed republican — promised to heed a plea from Indigenous Australians about their status in society. That campaign, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, seeks a change to the Constitution to guarantee the participation of Indigenous Australians in political debate and recognize their sovereignty, which Britain denied the existence of 300 years ago.

And on Tuesday, in a further sign of Mr. Albanese’s seriousness about constitutional reform, he noted while announcing his cabinet that he had created a new role of “assistant minister for the republic.”

Peter FitzSimons, the chairman of the Australian Republic Movement, which campaigns for Australia to cut ties with the monarchy, said his organization had received $100,000 in donations in the week after Mr. Albanese’s election.

In New Zealand, earlier this year, Te Pāti Māori, a political party representing Indigenous Māori, called for a “divorce” from the monarchy, driven in part by distrust in an institution that oversaw the theft of their lands.

“We put trust in a monarchy that we thought was acting in good faith,” said Rawiri Waititi, a member of Parliament and a co-leader of Te Pāti Māori. “That didn’t happen.”

The “divorce” is part of a set of changes that the party hopes New Zealand will embrace, including establishing a Māori Parliament and allowing for greater Maori self-governance.

Still, New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, a republican, said last year that she had “never sensed urgency” from the public on the monarchy’s role. She has said that she will not act on the matter while in government.

— Pete McKenzie

Canadians still admire the queen, but most want to see the monarchy come to an end.

OTTAWA — When Queen Elizabeth II of Britain first took the throne, symbols of the crown and royal coat of arms appeared seemingly everywhere in Canada, which remains part of the Commonwealth, including on mundane objects like mailboxes.

In the decades since, most of those symbols have disappeared — a diminished presence that is reflected as Canada celebrates the queen’s Platinum Jubilee not with an extended weekend or grand tribute, but with a series of low-key, mostly local events.

There will be tree plantings by air cadets in Calgary, Alberta; a geocaching walk in, perhaps appropriately, Cache Creek, British Columbia; plus military parades, garden parties, artistic performances, a photo exhibition and a sound and light show on the nation’s Parliament buildings.

All 325 examples of the Canadian dollar pure-platinum Platinum Jubilee coin are sold out at the Royal Canadian Mint, but Canada Post has plenty of commemorative stamps available .

Queen Elizabeth still commands wide support and respect among Canadians. In an April survey conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, a nonprofit public opinion agency, 62 percent of respondents expressed a favorable view of the queen.

The following month, Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, made a three-day whirlwind royal tour across the vastness of Canada to mark his mother’s reign.

Yet there is growing national ambivalence in Canada over the monarchy as a whole.

Sixty-seven percent of respondents in the April poll said they opposed the idea of Charles succeeding his mother as Canada’s king. As has been the case in Canada since the end of his marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, crowds at the few open public events that Charles attended last month were comparatively small.

For many in Canada’s increasingly multicultural and diverse population, the monarchy either represents historical oppression or is bafflingly irrelevant.

“There may well be a point at which Canadians say, ‘Huh, who’s this dude on my money?’” said Shachi Kurl, the president of Angus Reid.

Still, to prevent Charles from automatically becoming king of Canada when the queen dies would require amending Canada’s Constitution, which makes the British monarch the head of state. Such an effort would need the unanimous approval of Parliament and the governments of all 10 provinces, said Philippe Lagassé, an associate professor at Carleton University and an expert on the monarchy’s role in Canada.

In a country that is often divided on regional lines, getting that sort of agreement is the kind of a monumental task that no politician might wish to take on.

Even as head of state, the queen has even less authority in Canada than she wields in Britain. Nearly all of her powers have long been held on her behalf by the governor general — the queen’s representative, but one selected by Canada’s cabinet. The current officeholder is Mary Simon, an Inuk from northern Quebec who is Canada’s first Indigenous governor general.

When Charles becomes king, the disappearance of symbols of the crown and the royal coat of arms in Canada’s public spaces may accelerate. And the monarchy itself may just slowly fade out.

— Ian Austen

In the wake of Black Lives Matter, the Caribbean reassesses the British crown.

Of all the places where Queen Elizabeth II remains head of state, the future of the monarchy looks bleakest among the nations of the Caribbean.

Last November, Prince Charles joined Rihanna and other guests at the ceremony in which Barbados dropped the queen as its head of state and became a republic. Now, six other Caribbean nations may follow suit.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, public sentiment toward the monarchy has soured, and calls for reparations for Britain’s often brutal role in the slave trade have been rising.

Separate tours of the Caribbean this year by Prince Edward, Charles’s brother, and by Prince William, the future king’s son, were the subject of protests over the monarchy and Britain’s brutal history with slavery. The protests forced the cancellation of some stops.

Standing next to William during his visit, Jamaica’s prime minister, Andrew Holness, said his country was “moving on” from Britain’s monarchy. “We intend to fulfill our true ambitions and destiny as an independent, developed, prosperous country,” Mr. Holness said.

In 1972, Arthur Foulkes was present as an opposition delegate to the Bahamas Independence Conference in London. Five decades later, he says it is time for a Bahamian head of state to replace the British monarch.

“I have great respect for Queen Elizabeth II,” Mr. Foulkes said. But he added: “The time has come for us to look beyond the monarchy. I think a lot of us have been thinking that way.”

While the appearance of William and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, stirred debate locally, the couple was not met with notable protests or obvious resentment during their stop in the Bahamas.

The government of the Bahamas has not said that it plans to change the nation’s head of state. But Fred Mitchell, the minister of foreign affairs, has long pushed for the country to become a republic.

“We should have gone to be a republic at independence, but for various internal political reasons, it couldn’t be done,” he said. “When the Bahamian people are persuaded that that’s the direction they want to go in, we will head that way. But there’s no campaign at the moment for constitutional change in that direction.”

Patricia Glinton-Meicholas, a Bahamian author and historian, said discussions about who should be the head of state missed larger and more important questions.

“I’d rather use my voice to talk about those things that we need to fix in our own country,” Ms. Glinton-Meicholas said. “There are major problems from having a slave and colonial past.”

She said that it would be more productive if Caribbean nations pushed for reparations from Britain for slavery and colonialism, and that she would like them to take the form of educational institutions and museums that deal with the history and effects of slavery.

“We should be focusing on how we should repair the damage done,” Ms. Glinton-Meicholas said. “With reparations, give us institutions. Give money for that out of the wealth you acquired from these colonial territories.”

Rachel Knowles-Scott contributed reporting from Long Island, the Bahamas.

The St. Paul’s event is a welcome break from political pressure for Boris Johnson.

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LONDON — When Boris Johnson, Britain’s embattled prime minister, gave a reading from the New Testament at a service in St. Paul’s Cathedral during Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Friday, it was a chance for him to step back from domestic political pressures, stride the global stage and rub shoulders with royalty.

Mr. Johnson has faced acute criticism after the publication of an top civil servant’s report that was highly critical of the culture in Downing Street, where lockdown-breaking parties were held during the pandemic. The prime minister himself was fined by the police for attending one such event, and there is growing speculation about a no-confidence vote in his leadership.

Yet this week’s jubilee events have ushered in a brief truce in the political infighting within Mr. Johnson’s Conservative Party as politicians from across the political divide gather to celebrate the queen’s seven-decade reign. There were, however, some boos from the crowd when Mr. Johnson and his wife, Carrie Johnson, arrived at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Queen Elizabeth has a regular audience with the prime minister, a ritual that in her case began with meetings with Winston Churchill. Yet despite being head of state, she has little real power and defers to elected politicians on matters of policy. She also avoids public statements that might give any indication of her personal views.

Given the history, tradition and global interest in the monarchy, political leaders and other establishment figures have long valued appearing at royal events because it gives them access to some of the stardust of royalty.

Alastair Campbell, who served as spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair, described in his diaries his attendance at the queen’s Golden Jubilee media reception at Windsor, in 2002, and observing the impact of her presence on the assembled British journalists.

“There was something truly pathetic about these so-called hardened hacks, many of them self-proclaimed republicans, bowing and scraping the whole time,” he wrote. Queen Elizabeth, he added, “moved effortlessly between them and left grown men in little puddles of excitement as she moved on.”

When the queen attended a dinner for former prime ministers in Downing Street, the atmosphere was also good enough to prompt conversations among hardened political adversaries.

Other politicians have described Queen Elizabeth’s mastery of small talk and her skill at retaining a poker face, including Alan Clark, who served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher’s government.

“Not for the first time I wondered about the queen,” he wrote after one encounter, “Is she really rather dull and stupid? Or is she thinking ‘how do people as dull and stupid as this ever get to be ministers?’”

The jubilee is expected to provide a boost to many British businesses.

What with all the bunting, flag waving and street parties, it is clear that many people are spending a significant amount of money over the Platinum Jubilee weekend. In fact, by one estimate, there will be more than 400 million pounds (about $501 million) in jubilee spending , with £280 million of that on souvenirs and gifts alone.

For many businesses, the four-day weekend will bring a welcome boost and some cheer amid a long-running stream of economic problems , including pandemic-related supply chain disruptions, frighteningly large energy bills, hiring challenges and rising food and commodities prices exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.

Sixty percent of small- and medium-size businesses said they expected their revenues to be higher in this quarter compared with a year ago, in part because of the royal celebrations, according to a survey by Barclays. Hospitality businesses are expecting to be the biggest beneficiaries: Industry groups said they believed pubs, bars, restaurants and other venues could earn £400 million more than during a typical Thursday to Sunday at this time of year.

“At last, our beleaguered sector is able to look forward to the sort of trading period that will give it a massive boost as it sets out on the long road to post-pandemic recovery,” the groups said in a joint statement.

Kate Nicholls, the chief executive of UKHospitality, an industry group, said the effect of the bank holiday might be muted because of darkening economic clouds and because the extra days off fall during an existing school vacation, when many families will be away.

“Undoubtedly people are a bit more nervous in the sector that you won’t get that boost and uplift that you’d normally get from a bank holiday because of the suppression of demand you are getting from the talk about a cost of living crisis,” she said.

But even with Pimm’s flowing for four days and endless excuses to socialize, the overall economic impact is relatively small. On the grand scale of Britain’s economy, bank holidays actually decrease the country’s economic output. Many economists are factoring the long weekend into their forecasts that the economy will slow this quarter.

— Eshe Nelson

The service in St. Paul’s Cathedral highlights the queen’s role as head of church and state.

The service of thanksgiving at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on Friday as part of the jubilee celebrations was intended to exemplify Queen Elizabeth II’s special role in British life as both head of state and of the Church of England.

As Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the queen appoints archbishops, bishops and deans of cathedrals on the advice of the prime minister — hence the symbolic importance of the service in St. Paul’s Cathedral.

The recently restored Great Paul, the largest church bell in Britain, was rung, followed by a peal of bells before a service featuring Bible readings, anthems, prayers and congregational hymns to express thanks for the queen’s seven-decade reign.

The State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry greeted the royal arrivals, and the congregation heard a new anthem by Judith Weir, Master of The Queen’s Music, which sets to music words from the third chapter of the Book of Proverbs.

The choirs of St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Chapel Royal also came together to sing “I Was Glad” by Hubert Parry — a work that is performed at the coronation of British monarchs.

The royal family takes its role as the guardian of the church seriously, and its senior members regularly attend services, whether at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle or the more modest surroundings of the churches near the royal estates at Sandringham and Balmoral.

Also invited to be among about 400 people in attendance on Friday were diplomats and leading politicians, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his surviving predecessors, and the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer.

Mr. Johnson gave a reading from the New Testament at the service, illustrating the constitutional links between the government and the monarch, who — though head of state — defers on political matters to those who are elected.

Queen Elizabeth has a regular audience with the prime minister, a ritual that in her case began with meetings with Winston Churchill. Yet the queen is expected to be above politics and invariably avoids venturing opinions on anything that might identify her own views.

The archbishop of York praises the queen’s lifetime of service in a sermon at St. Paul’s.

The archbishop of York praised Queen Elizabeth II for “a staunch constancy and a steadfast consistency” in her service to Britain, during the sermon at a thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on Friday.

“Thank you for continuing to be faithful to the pledges you made 70 years ago,” the archbishop, Stephen Cottrell, said at the event, which was part of a four-day celebration of the queen’s Platinum Jubilee. “Thank you for showing us how service and faithfulness matter. People of all faiths and no faiths and people of good will can learn from this.”

The queen did not attend the service, after experiencing discomfort on Thursday, the first day of jubilee festivities. Archbishop Cottrell was filling in for the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who withdrew from jubilee events after testing positive for Covid last weekend.

In a nod to the queen’s long affinity for horse racing, Archbishop Cottrell referred to two of Britain’s most famous racecourses when he said, “Since the scriptures describe life as a race set before us, let me observe that your long reign reflects the distance of Aintree more than the sprints of Epsom.”

“Your Majesty, we’re sorry you’re not with us this morning in person, but we are so glad you are still in the saddle,” the archbishop said. “And we are all glad that there is still more to come.”

— Chris Stanford

The queen’s role is constitutional as well as religious.

Queen Elizabeth II occupies a unique place in British culture, serving a constitutional, religious and ceremonial role, as both head of state and head of the Church of England, a role held by British monarchs for centuries.

The monarchy’s role in the church dates back to the time of Henry VIII, who in 1534 separated the church in England from the Roman Catholic Church when he renounced the authority of the pope and became the “supreme head on Earth” of the Church of England.

Because of this, Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953 had both a religious and ceremonial element. She appoints archbishops, bishops and deans of the Church of England, who swear an oath of allegiance to her. She does not lead the church on spiritual or practical matters, however. That is left up to the General Synod, the national assembly of the Church of England.

Over the seven decades of the queen’s reign, Britain’s population has grown more secular and more religiously diverse. And as Buckingham Palace describes it, “The queen acknowledges and celebrates religious diversity and tolerance in the U.K. and the Commonwealth.”

What is Great Paul? The story behind the iconic bell at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

LONDON — The history of Great Paul, the St. Paul’s Cathedral bell that was rung for a service commemorating Queen Elizabeth II ’s Platinum Jubilee celebration on Friday, is one of toil and grandeur.

It is also a story that involves a giant furnace, over 16 and a half tons of metal and now, of muscles and sweat.

The largest bell ever cast in the British Isles, and the largest still being rung there, Great Paul was commissioned in 19th-century Britain, when a penchant for ambitious, monumental objects was reflected in a high demand for large, deep-toned bells.

Several cities around the country got one, but Great Paul “was destined to outrival all competitors in size, weight and public acclaim,” Trevor S. Jennings, an author who specializes in bells, wrote in his book “The Story of Great Paul.”

The bell, made of bronze, was intended to resemble those of cathedrals in continental Europe. But the foundry that created it — run by John Taylor in Loughborough, a town north of London — made it clear that to reach the note that the cathedral was going for, the bell would need to weigh at least 15 tons.

So the foundry built a new, larger furnace to melt copper, tin and old bells from other British churches, and the workers took four days to load more than 40,000 pounds of metal into the furnaces.

When the bell was completed, Mr. Taylor invited locals and workers to a celebratory luncheon, and hundreds of visitors from miles away came to see the bell.

But the work was not over. To transport the huge bell to London, about 140 miles away, options like trains and boats were rejected, because of overly complex logistics, as were elephants — because they weren’t exactly abundant in Britain.

The bell was finally loaded onto a carriage drawn by a steam engine. It took 11 days to reach London, in a large convoy attended by reporters but also vandals trying to inscribe their initials on the bell with chalks and chisels. In May 1882, Great Paul arrived in the cathedral’s southwestern tower, where it still hangs.

Its primacy was tested in 2012 by Britain’s Olympic bell, which weighs about 23 tons but was cast in the Netherlands and is now displayed, silently, in London’s Olympic Park.

Great Paul was also largely silent for over four decades after its electronic motor broke a few years after being installed in the 1970s. After the bell was restored last year, the church’s ringers began sounding it manually so that its powerful, low-pitched chime could resonate across its central London neighborhood.

That is a two-person job, said Simon Read, 26, a member of St. Paul’s Cathedral guild of bell ringers who will ring Great Paul before Friday’s service celebrating the queen’s 70 years as monarch. And it requires tackling the rope with their full bodies to swing the 16-ton bell.

It is, Mr. Read said, a mixture of music and exercise. “I’ll be doing biceps,” he said.

Mr. Read, who has swung bells hundreds of times over the past 12 years, said that Friday’s was the most important performance of his career. His fellow guild members have also helped Britain commemorate notable events: One, who is 90, rang the cathedral’s bells for Winston Churchill’s funeral in 1965, and another rang them for the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1981.

On Friday, bells in churches across Britain rang as Great Paul sounded before the service. St. Paul’s bells will then also ring for four hours after the event, which includes Bible readings, anthems, prayers and hymns to honor the queen for her faith and service.

Mr. Read said he planned to get a good night’s sleep and drink some Gatorade before climbing the narrow stairs to the dark, dusty room above the cathedral’s clock to ring Great Paul for the queen.

“I feel very proud and special to be able to ring the biggest bell in the country,” Mr. Read said, adding, “I would hope that she notices that the bells are ringing.”

— Emma Bubola

The true anniversary of the queen’s accession was more subdued.

This week’s Platinum Jubilee festivities feature an abundance of royal pomp and circumstance. But on the actual anniversary of the queen’s accession to the throne, back in February, Elizabeth spent a quiet Sunday at her country estate, Sandringham, where her father died on Feb. 6, 1952.

Accession Day has always been a melancholy anniversary for the queen, as much about the death of her father as her own ascension to the throne. Although George VI had been seriously ill, his death was traumatic for the 25-year-old princess, who was by all accounts very close to him.

Still, Elizabeth managed some low-key festivities on this year’s anniversary, cutting a cake and playing host to members of volunteer groups. Among her guests was Angela Wood, an 88-year-old onetime cooking student who created “coronation chicken,” the dish served to 350 V.I.P.’s at the banquet on coronation day in 1953.

Mrs. Wood and the queen discussed the recipe, which calls for diced chicken, tomato paste, a dash of curry powder, brown sugar, a pinch of salt, a splash of red wine, later mixed with mayonnaise and puréed apricots.

“For a month or more,” she told the BBC, “I was cooking a chicken a day, and we had to alter the balance of the spices in the sauce to get it right.”

An earlier milestone: The day that Elizabeth II became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.

Queen elizabeth thanks well-wishers, queen elizabeth ii spoke in tweedbank, scotland, on the day she became the longest-reigning monarch in britain’s history..

AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Tweedbank - 9 September, 2015 SOUNDBITE (English) Queen Elizabeth II: “Prince Philip and I are very grateful for the warmth of your welcome on this occasion. Many, including you First Minister, have also kindly noted another significance attaching to today. Although it is not one to which I have ever aspired, inevitably a long life can pass by many milestones. My own is no exception. But I thank you all and the many others at home and overseas for your touching messages of great kindness. So now to the business in hand. It is my very happy duty to declare the Borders Railway open.” SOUNDBITE (English) Queen Elizabeth II: “Inevitably a long life can pass by many milestones, my own is no exception. But I thank you all and the many others at home and overseas for your touching messages of great kindness.”

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On Sept. 9, 2015, Elizabeth II became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, surpassing the record set by Queen Victoria. On that day, Steven Erlanger, who was The New York Times’s London bureau chief at the time, wrote about the milestone. Below is an excerpt from that article.

She became queen at 25, and as of 5:30 p.m. British time on Wednesday, at 89, Elizabeth II had ruled for 23,226 days, 16 hours and about 30 minutes, according to the BBC, surpassing Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother.

The first Queen Elizabeth gave her name to an age, as did Victoria, in an ever more powerful kingdom. But that is unlikely to be the legacy of this Elizabeth, who has reigned over Britain’s long transition from empire to Commonwealth, from world power to relative international insignificance.

Yet through it all, she has managed to maintain public respect and belief in the monarchy — despite the sometimes scandalous behavior of her children and the spectacular death of Diana , the Princess of Wales — by her regal quiet.

“She has made it an absolute rule to say nothing about anything,” the historian David Starkey told the BBC.

In private, many attest, the queen can sometimes be sharp and even malicious, and a good mimic, Mr. Starkey said. But “in public utterance,” he said, “a very firm and large padlock is placed upon the royal lips.”

In this, the queen has embraced the wisdom of Walter Bagehot in “The English Constitution,” published as a book in 1867, when he said that to preserve a constitutional monarchy, “we must not let in daylight upon magic.”

She has also been rigorous about her responsibilities, again heeding Bagehot when he wrote that a sovereign has “three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.” He added, “And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.”

In his memoir, Tony Blair recounted his first meeting with her as prime minister: “You are my 10th prime minister,” the queen told him. “The first was Winston. That was before you were born.”

The queen spent Wednesday in Scotland, doing her queenly duty. The Duke of Edinburgh, her husband, joined her to open the Scottish Borders Railway, and they rode on a steam train with Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

There was more fuss in London, where regular business in the House of Commons was postponed for 30 minutes so that legislators could pay tribute.

A flotilla of historical vessels, leisure cruisers and passenger boats took part in a procession between Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. The flotilla did not, however, include the Royal Yacht Britannia, which the queen loved but decommissioned in 1997 in response to public agitation for savings. It is now a tourist attraction in Edinburgh.

The monarchy and the queen are hardly without critics, and the republican movement, which regards the monarchy and its many branches as a waste of space and money, remains vocal.

Graham Smith, head of the anti-monarchist group Republic, said in a statement : “The queen has said nothing and done little that anyone can remember over 63 years in office. So instead, we see commentators and cheerleaders projecting the nation’s history, changes and achievements onto the monarch.”

— Steven Erlanger

In time for her jubilee, there’s now a London Tube line named for the queen.

As crowds of people flock to jubilee events across London, some of them can take advantage of a new subway line that opened last week and is named for Queen Elizabeth II, who made a surprise visit to the new line at Paddington Station a week earlier.

The Elizabeth line officially opened at 6:30 a.m. on May 24, after years of construction, delays and a price tag of more than $22 billion. Among the dozens who rode the first train was Prateek Karandikar, 33, a public transit aficionado who lives in central London. He woke before dawn to get there on time and, like other fans who came, dressed in head-to-toe purple — the official color of the Elizabeth line.

“The Elizabeth line is the most significant thing to happen to London’s transport for the last few decades,” Mr. Karandikar said. “So I just knew I had to be there on the first train to see it.”

The line, also known as the Crossrail, will eventually run for more than 62 miles, extending east and west beyond the city limits. Now, the line is partly operating, with full service scheduled to begin in May 2023.

When the queen attended the opening ceremony on May 17, she met workers who had helped build the line and some of those who will run and maintain it. Her youngest son, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, accompanied her.

The queen was given an Oyster card, the transit pass used in London, and shown how to use it on a ticket machine.

At the station, she was welcomed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson; London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan; and Andy Byford, the commissioner of the city’s transit authority and the former leader of New York’s subway system.

“We’re all incredibly touched and moved and grateful to Her Majesty for coming to open the Elizabeth line today,” Mr. Johnson said at the event, according to the BBC . “It was fantastic to see her.”

— Megan Specia and Amanda Holpuch

Here’s how to watch the queen’s Platinum Jubilee events.

From Thursday to Sunday, Britain is celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, commemorating her 70 years as monarch — a first for a British queen or king.

Thousands of events are taking place around the country and the Commonwealth, and London will host a series of official ceremonies. The celebrations are timed to coincide with her official Queen’s Birthday, an annual public holiday, although Elizabeth’s actual birthday is April 21.

Where to watch it

The New York Times is covering the events for an international audience.

In the United States, ABC News has been covering the jubilee celebrations on “Good Morning America” and “GMA3: What You Need to Know,” broadcast from London and Windsor, England. A Sky News YouTube stream broadcasting some of the events is available in the United States.

In Britain, the events are being livestreamed on the BBC.

A service of thanksgiving for the queen’s reign will be held at St. Paul’s Cathedral in central London. Great Paul, the largest church bell in Britain, will be rung before the service.

Afterward, members of the royal family are scheduled to attend a reception at London’s Guildhall.

The traditional Derby Stakes, known as the Epsom Derby — one of Britain’s best-known horse races — will be held in the afternoon. The queen had initially been scheduled to attend but canceled to “pace herself” through the weekend, according to the BBC, and then also canceled her appearance on Friday after experiencing “discomfort” on the first day of festivities. Her daughter, Princess Anne, will attend on her behalf.

A Platinum Party concert will take place in the evening at Buckingham Palace, with performances by acts like Elton John, Alicia Keys, Queen, Duran Duran, Andrea Bocelli and Elbow performing. About 22,000 people are expected to attend.

Over 10 million people across Britain and the Commonwealth are expected to join Big Jubilee Lunches.

In the afternoon, a parade featuring dancers, military displays, musicians, gymnasts, key workers and community representatives will be held on the Mall in central London. Ed Sheeran, the British pop star, is scheduled to perform in the parade’s finale.

Leviticus 25:8-55 English Standard Version

The year of jubilee.

8  “You shall count seven weeks [ a ] of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. 9  Then you shall sound ( A ) the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. ( B ) On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 10  And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and ( C ) proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of ( D ) you shall return to his clan. 11  That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it ( E ) you shall neither sow nor reap ( F ) what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. 12  For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. ( G ) You may eat the produce of the field. [ b ]

13  ( H ) “In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. 14  And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, ( I ) you shall not wrong one another. 15  ( J ) You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops. 16  If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you. 17  ( K ) You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

18  ( L ) “Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then ( M ) you will dwell in the land securely. 19  ( N ) The land will yield its fruit, and ( O ) you will eat your fill ( P ) and dwell in it securely. 20  And if you say, ( Q ) ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if ( R ) we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ 21  I will ( S ) command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. 22  ( T ) When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of ( U ) the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.

Redemption of Property

23  “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for ( V ) the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. 24  And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.

25  “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, ( W ) then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold. 26  If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, 27  let ( X ) him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property. 28  But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall ( Y ) be released, and ( Z ) he shall return to his property.

29  “If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. 30  If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; ( AA ) it shall not be released in the jubilee. 31  But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and ( AB ) they shall be released in the jubilee. 32  As for ( AC ) the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess. 33  And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel. 34  But the fields ( AD ) of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.

Kindness for Poor Brothers

35  “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, ( AE ) you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. 36  ( AF ) Take no interest from him or profit, but ( AG ) fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. 37  ( AH ) You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. 38  ( AI ) I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

39  ( AJ ) “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: 40  he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. 41  ( AK ) Then he shall go out from you, ( AL ) he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return ( AM ) to the possession of his fathers. 42  For they are ( AN ) my servants, [ c ] whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. 43  ( AO ) You shall not rule over him ( AP ) ruthlessly but ( AQ ) shall fear your God. 44  As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. 45  ( AR ) You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. 46  You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel ( AS ) you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

Redeeming a Poor Man

47  “If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and ( AT ) your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger's clan, 48  then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him, 49  or his uncle or his cousin may ( AU ) redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he ( AV ) grows rich he may redeem himself. 50  He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be ( AW ) rated as the time of a hired worker. 51  If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price. 52  If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service. 53  He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. ( AX ) He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight. 54  And if he is not redeemed by these means, then ( AY ) he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee. 55  For it is ( AZ ) to me that the people of Israel are servants. [ d ] They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  • Leviticus 25:8 Or Sabbaths
  • Leviticus 25:12 Or countryside
  • Leviticus 25:42 Hebrew slaves
  • Leviticus 25:55 Or slaves

Cross references

  • Leviticus 25:9 : [ch. 23:24; Isa. 27:13]
  • Leviticus 25:9 : ch. 23:24, 27
  • Leviticus 25:10 : Isa. 61:1; Jer. 34:8, 13, 15, 17; Ezek. 46:17; [Isa. 61:2; 63:4; Luke 4:19]
  • Leviticus 25:10 : ch. 27:24; Num. 36:4
  • Leviticus 25:11 : ver. 4, 5
  • Leviticus 25:11 : [See ver. 5 above]; [2 Kgs. 19:29]; Isa. 37:30
  • Leviticus 25:12 : ver. 6, 7
  • Leviticus 25:13 : [See ver. 10 above]; ch. 27:24; Num. 36:4
  • Leviticus 25:14 : [ch. 19:33]
  • Leviticus 25:15 : ch. 27:18, 23
  • Leviticus 25:17 : ver. 36, 43; ch. 19:14, 32
  • Leviticus 25:18 : See ch. 18:4, 5
  • Leviticus 25:18 : ch. 26:5, 6; Deut. 12:10; [Prov. 1:33; Jer. 23:6; Ezek. 34:25, 28]
  • Leviticus 25:19 : Ps. 85:12; Ezek. 34:26, 27
  • Leviticus 25:19 : ch. 26:5; Deut. 11:15; [Joel 2:19, 26]
  • Leviticus 25:19 : [See ver. 18 above]; ch. 26:5, 6; Deut. 12:10; [Prov. 1:33; Jer. 23:6; Ezek. 34:25, 28]
  • Leviticus 25:20 : [Matt. 6:25, 31; Luke 12:22, 29]
  • Leviticus 25:20 : ver. 4, 5
  • Leviticus 25:21 : Deut. 28:8
  • Leviticus 25:22 : [2 Kgs. 19:29]
  • Leviticus 25:22 : ch. 26:10
  • Leviticus 25:23 : Deut. 32:43; 2 Chr. 7:20; Ps. 85:1; Hos. 9:3; Joel 2:18; 3:2
  • Leviticus 25:25 : Ruth 2:20; 3:9, 12; 4:4, 6; Jer. 32:7, 8
  • Leviticus 25:27 : See ver. 50-52
  • Leviticus 25:28 : ch. 27:21
  • Leviticus 25:28 : ver. 13, 41
  • Leviticus 25:30 : [See ver. 28 above]; ch. 27:21
  • Leviticus 25:31 : [See ver. 28 above]; ch. 27:21
  • Leviticus 25:32 : [Num. 35:2]; See Josh. 21:2-40
  • Leviticus 25:34 : Num. 35:2; 1 Chr. 13:2; [Acts 4:36, 37]; See Josh. 21:11-42; 1 Chr. 6:55-81
  • Leviticus 25:35 : Deut. 15:7, 8; [Ps. 41:1; 112:5, 9; Prov. 14:31; Acts 11:29; 1 John 3:17]
  • Leviticus 25:36 : See Ex. 22:25
  • Leviticus 25:36 : ver. 17, 43; Neh. 5:9; [Mal. 3:5]
  • Leviticus 25:37 : [See ver. 36 above]; See Ex. 22:25
  • Leviticus 25:38 : ver. 42, 55; ch. 22:32, 33; 26:13
  • Leviticus 25:39 : Ex. 21:2; Deut. 15:12; 1 Kgs. 9:22; 2 Kgs. 4:1; Neh. 5:5
  • Leviticus 25:41 : [See ver. 28 above]; ch. 27:21
  • Leviticus 25:41 : [Ex. 21:3]
  • Leviticus 25:41 : ver. 13, 28
  • Leviticus 25:42 : ver. 55; [Rom. 6:22; 1 Cor. 7:23]
  • Leviticus 25:43 : [Eph. 6:9; Col. 4:1]
  • Leviticus 25:43 : Ex. 1:13, 14; Ezek. 34:4
  • Leviticus 25:43 : ver. 17, 36
  • Leviticus 25:45 : Isa. 14:1, 2; 56:3, 6
  • Leviticus 25:46 : Ex. 1:13, 14; Ezek. 34:4
  • Leviticus 25:47 : ver. 25, 35, 39
  • Leviticus 25:49 : See Neh. 5:1-5
  • Leviticus 25:49 : ver. 26, 47
  • Leviticus 25:50 : Job 7:1; Isa. 16:14; 21:16
  • Leviticus 25:53 : [See ver. 46 above]; Ex. 1:13, 14; Ezek. 34:4
  • Leviticus 25:54 : ver. 41; Ex. 21:2, 3
  • Leviticus 25:55 : ver. 42

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The finalists for the 44th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were revealed Wednesday morning. Palestinian human rights activist and writer Raja Shehadeh , novelist Yiyun Li and comedian Maria Bamford are among the 66 nominees in 13 categories honoring the highest quality of craft from authors at all stages of their careers.

Bamford is one of 10 finalists, including Sophia Bush, in the newly introduced category of achievement in audiobook production, which is being given in collaboration with Audible and spotlights performance, production and innovation in storytelling.

The awards ceremony, which will take place April 19 at USC’s Bovard Auditorium on the eve of the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books , also includes a number of honorees in special categories. Pulitzer Prize-winning, L.A.-born author Jane Smiley will receive the 2023 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, which celebrates a writer with a substantial connection to the American West.

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“Whether it’s her epic reimagining of King Lear in ‘A Thousand Acres,’ exploring campus life at Moo University in the hilarious ‘Moo,’ or her insightful writing about her beloved horses for readers of all ages, Smiley’s work brings a deeper understanding of the American landscape and the people (and creatures) that inhabit it,” said Times Associate Director of Events and Book Prizes Administrator Ann Binney in a news release.

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“Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters,’ a book-length expansion of an essay on the problematic relationship between masculinity and fame, considers how we come to love art made by less-than-perfect humans,” said the judges of the Isherwood Prize. “Dederer engages the essayist form at its best and the result is both critical, literary and provocative.”

The nonprofit organization Access Books, which works to renovate school libraries and to ensure that kids in underserved communities have access to quality literature and resources, will be given the 2023 Innovator’s Award. This honor recognizes efforts to keep books, publishing and storytelling relevant in the future.

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  1. Big Jubilee Read: the list of 70 books that celebrates Queen Elizabeth

    Seventy books from across the Commonwealth have been selected to make up a reading list commemorating Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee. The Big Jubilee Read was created by BBC Arts and The Reading Agency. It was compiled by librarians, booksellers and literature experts based on readers' recommendations from 31 countries.

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    The Big Jubilee Read — 70 books fit for Queen and country. Intended to celebrate the best of Commonwealth writers, the list is set to ignite controversy over who has been left off. Sian ...

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    Friday May 27 2022, 5.00pm, The Times. The Queen's reading habits are a bit of mystery, beyond her enthusiasm for the Racing Post, but the past 70 years have been a glorious time for readers of ...

  4. Big Jubilee Read

    The Big Jubilee Read is a 2022 campaign to promote reading for pleasure and to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. A list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, 10 from each decade of Elizabeth II 's reign, was selected by a panel of experts and announced by the BBC and The Reading Agency on 18 April 2022.

  5. The Big Jubilee Read booklist announced!

    The Big Jubilee Read campaign will be delivered in partnership with BBC Arts and The Reading Agency. It received funding of £185,000 from Arts Council England and is supported by Libraries Connected and the Booksellers Association. It follows on from other collaborations between The Reading Agency and the BBC, including the national Big Read ...

  6. The God of Small Things to Shuggie Bain: the Queen's jubilee book list

    The Handmaid's Tale, The God of Small Things and A Clockwork Orange are among 70 books from across the Commonwealth chosen to mark the Queen's platinum jubilee. Ten books for each of the seven ...

  7. Book of Jubilees

    German translation of Jubilees, 1856. The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish apocryphal text of 50 chapters (1341 verses), considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as well as Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews), where it is known as the Book of Division (Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ኩፋሌ, romanized: maṣiḥāfa kufale).

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    Buy The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign in this Platinum Jubilee book by Owen, James, Times Books (ISBN: 9780008485207) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

  9. Her Majesty The Queen: Inside The Official Platinum Jubilee Book

    An official commemorative album featuring more than 250 wonderful images from across the Queen's 70-year reign will launch in time for Platinum Jubilee celebrations.. Written by Robert Jobson, Katie Nicholl and Tom Parker Bowles, the fully illustrated coffee table book celebrates the life and reign of Her Majesty, exploring how she has provided the nation with leadership during times of ...

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    Rachel Hanna is an 11-time USA Today and 2-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author who has sold over 2 million books. She crafts women's fiction that takes readers on emotional journeys through the scenic landscapes of the South—whether it's the sun-kissed beaches or the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains.

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  15. Jubilee by Margaret Walker

    4.36. 6,259 ratings706 reviews. A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his black slaves. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the ...

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  17. Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)

    Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) Paperback - September 6, 2016. The best-selling classic about a mixed-race child in the Civil War-era South that "chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage" (New York Times Book Review). Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black ...

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    The Year of Jubilee. 8 "You shall count seven weeks [] of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall sound () the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and () proclaim ...

  19. Jubilee Series in Order by Rachel Hanna

    The next book in the Jubilee series, Blue Ridge Breakdown (Book 4), will be published in April 2024. What was the first book written in the Jubilee series? The first book in the Jubilee series, Welcome To Jubilee, was published in August 2023.

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