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Disney releases animation to celebrate Winnie the Pooh's 95th birthday - with a tribute to The Queen

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12th June 2021
The Queen celebrated her official birthday on Saturday, 12 June, with a slimmed down Trooping of the Colour. However, she is in good company celebrating her 95th birthday; beloved bear Winnie the Pooh is also celebrating his 95th birthday this year.  Winnie the Pooh will reach its 95th publication anniversary in October 2021. To mark the milestone and the Queen’s birthday, Disney has…
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"Are you supposed to look as if you are enjoying yourselves?" - The Queen entertains world leaders with cheeky jokes at G7 Summit

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11th June 2021
The Queen has been entertaining world leaders at the G7 Summit in Cornwall with her humorous quips. As the politicians and Heads of State gathered for a group photo outside of the Eden Project, The Queen joked: “Are you supposed to look as if you are enjoying it?” With that, the stony-faced politicians burst out laughing, as the photographers present snapped away to get their…
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Government Minister attacks university decision to remove portrait of The Queen

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10th June 2021
Members of the Magdalen College Middle Common Room have voted to remove a printed portrait of The Queen from the common room. The Oxford students voted to remove it, on the basis of it being a symbol of “recent colonial history”. The move has both been praised and criticised in the following days. According to a BBC article, the motion was tabled to make the common room a more welcoming…
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The Queen needs you - writers and choirs from across the world needed for special song to be performed at Platinum Jubilee celebrations

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4th June 2021
With a year to go until The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, The Commonwealth Resounds is calling on all Commonwealth writers, composers, and choirs to be involved in a special and unique tribute to The Queen. A brand new Commonwealth song will be commissioned to be sung by choirs in all 54 Commonwealth countries at the same time as the lighting of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee…
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