Anyone else worried the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant could be really, really embarrassing?
The Independent says How hard is it to come up with a kick-ass celebration of great Britishness? It can’t be that hard, right? The facts speak for themselves. We’re generally acknowledged to have the most diverse range of crisp flavours in the Western world. We take an artisanal approach to swearing. We invented a yeast extract that simultaneously acts as a metaphor for societal division. We can make anything socially acceptable by adding the prefix ‘cheeky’ to it first.
Alas, none of these things appear to be included in next week’s Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant – which is being billed as “an awe-inspiring festival of creativity” that will “bring to life iconic moments from The Queen’s reign as well as showcasing our changing society over the past 70 years”. That job sits with a wealthy and quite unusually rogue 65-year-old Etonian who has previously dressed as an Arab sheikh and publicly declared to have a crush on Samantha Cameron. He’s the reason I’m a bit concerned about this whole pageant malarkey – and that’s even before you get to plans involving a flotilla of “Dames in Jags” and a bus carrying TV presenter Matthew Kelly dressed like it’s the 1960s.
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