Golden Jubilee

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Golden Jubilee

A Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary.
he United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
and other Commonwealth Realm

Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is any one of 16 Sovereignty states within the Commonwealth of Nations that each have Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their monarch....
s, a Golden Jubilee celebration is held in the 50th year of a monarch's reign.

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Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
celebrated her Golden Jubilee

Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II

The Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II was the international celebration marking the Golden Jubilee of the accession of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom to the thrones of States headed by Elizabeth II....
in 2002, having acceded to the throne in 1952. It was marked by a tour of the United Kingdom and her other realms, beginning with Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....
and moving on to New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
, Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, and Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
.

The highlight of the year was a massive celebration in London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
during the first week of June, which included two large concerts taking place on the back lawn of Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction....
, and televised by the BBC.

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A Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary.

In the Commonwealth Realms

In the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Commonwealth Realm

For Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II

Jamaica

New Zealand

Australia

Canada

London

Buckingham Palace

Prom at the Palace

The Prom at the Palace was a classical music concert held in London in 2002. The event was in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II....
, starred: inter alia, Kiri te Kanawa

Kiri Te Kanawa

Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, Order of New Zealand, Order of the British Empire, Order of Australia, is a New Zealand soprano who had a highly successful international opera career between 1968-2004....
, Angela Gheorghiu

Angela Gheorghiu

Angela Gheorghiu in Adjud, Romania is one of the most renowned operatic singers of the 21st Century. Since her professional debut in 1990, she has sung as soprano leading roles at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden's Royal Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, Milan's La Scala, and many other major opera houses in Europe and the U...
and Roberto Alagna

Roberto Alagna

Roberto Alagna is a France operatic tenor of Sicilian descent. He was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France....
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in United Kingdom....
and BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Chorus

The BBC Symphony Chorus is a British people amateur Choir based in London. It is the dedicated chorus for the BBC Symphony Orchestra.Originally founded in 1928 as the National Chorus it became the BBC Chorus in 1932....
conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Michael Parkinson

Michael Parkinson

Sir Michael Parkinson, Order of the British Empire is an English people broadcaster and journalist. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson , from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007....
, famed UK talkshow veteran, was the Master of Ceremonies

Master of Ceremonies

A Master or Mistress of Ceremonies or MC , sometimes called a comp?re or an MJ for "microphone jockey," is the Host of an official public or private staged event or other performance....
. It concluded with a rendition of Land of Hope and Glory
Land of Hope and Glory

"Land of Hope and Glory" is a traditional British Empire Patriotism song, with music by Sir Edward Elgar and words by A. C. Benson, written in 1902....
, sung by the hundreds on the lawn and the thousands outside the palace gates, and in the parks watching the concert on big screens.

The same double audience - inside and outside the palace - attended and/or viewed the pop concert, Party at the Palace

Party at the Palace

The Party at the Palace was a pop concert held in London in 2002. The event was in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II held over the Golden Jubilee Weekend 1 June-4 June 2002....
, which was also televised. It began with a rendition of God Save the Queen
God Save the Queen

"God Save the Queen", or "God Save the King", is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms. It is the national anthem of the United Kingdom, Norfolk Island, one of the two national anthems of the Cayman Islands and New Zealand and the royal anthem of Canada , Australia , the Isle of Man, Belize, Jamaica, and Tuvalu....
played by Brian May of Queen

Queen (band)

Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
from the roof of the palace. In the onstage orchestra, Phil Collins

Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
played drums for the whole event. Taking a broad view of pop music, the stars included Queen, Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
, Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson is a Grammy Award-winning United States musician best known as a member of the American rock and roll band, the Beach Boys....
, Sir Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
, Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
and Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker OBE is an England rock /blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty human voice and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles....
.

This was the first time that the Queen had opened Buckingham Palace Gardens

Buckingham Palace Gardens

Buckingham Palace Garden or, to give it its full title, "The Garden at Buckingham Palace", is the garden situated at the rear of Buckingham Palace....
to the public for concerts. The Royal Family

British Royal Family

The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in his or her Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realmss, thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family....
sat in a large royal box and all appeared to enjoy the proceedings.

The week of celebration culminated in a national service of thanksgiving at St. Paul's Cathedral, and a procession down The Mall

The Mall (London)

The Mall in London is the road running from Buckingham Palace at its western end to Admiralty Arch and on to Trafalgar Square at its eastern end, where it crosses Spring Gardens, which was where the Metropolitan Board of Works and, for a number of years, the London County Council were based....
.

To mark the jubilee year, five towns in the UK were awarded city status

City status

City status is the national recognition of an area as a city. Specifically, "city status" may refer to:*City rights in the Low Countries*City status in Sweden...
by Her Majesty.

For Queen Victoria

In 1887, the United Kingdom and the British Empire

British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, and other Dependent territory ruled or administered by the United Kingdom , that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
celebrated Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria was from 20 June 1837 the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India of the British Raj until her death....
's Golden Jubilee. Victoria marked 20 June 1887—the fiftieth anniversary of her accession—with a banquet, to which fifty European kings and princes were invited. Although she could not have been aware of it, there was a plan by Irish Republicans

Fenian Brotherhood

The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish Republican organization founded in the United States in 1850s by John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny. It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister organization to the Irish Republican Brotherhood....
to blow up Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey

The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic architecture Church , in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster....
while the Queen attended a service of thanksgiving. This assassination attempt, when it was discovered, became known as The Jubilee Plot

The Jubilee Plot

The Jubilee Plot was a failed assassination attempt on Victoria of the United Kingdom during her Golden Jubilee which was held on 20 June 1887. It was intended to blow up Westminster Abbey, Queen Victoria and half the British Cabinet....
. At the time, Victoria was an extremely popular monarch: The next day, she participated in a procession that, in the words of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
, "stretched to the limit of sight in both directions".

Of other monarchs of Great Britain

Although the notion of a Jubilee celebration seems to be an innovation dating from Victoria's reign, prior to this there were three monarchs of the British Isles who reigned more than 50 years. They are:

George III of the United Kingdom
George III of the United Kingdom

George III was Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death....
: 59 years
James VI of Scotland and James I of England and Ireland
James I of England

James VI and I was List of monarchs of Scotland as James VI, and List of English monarchs and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Kingdom of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary I of Scotland....
: 57 years (as King James VI of Scotland)
Henry III of England
Henry III of England

Henry III was the son and successor of John of England as King of England, reigning for fifty-six years from 1216 to his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester....
: 56 years

In Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, Golden Jubilee refers to 50th and called as Go-Zai-i 50nen kinen(???50???). Emperor

Emperor

An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the female equivalent. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor or a woman who rules in her own right ....
Hirohito

Hirohito

, also known as , was the 124th Emperor of Japan of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989....
(Or Emperor Showa), celebrated his Golden Jubilee on 10 November 1976. Showa Memorial Park

Showa Memorial Park

is a National Government Parks in Akishima, Tokyo and Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.It was established in 1983 as part of a project to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Hirohito ....
was established as park of a project to commemorate his Golden Jubilee .

In South Asia

South Asia

South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east....
, Golden Jubilee refers to 50th.

Film terminology

In Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
and India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, a golden jubilee film is one shown in cinemas for 50 weeks or more. The success measure for a 'superhit golden jubilee film' is minimum four months on its main cinema.

In other countries

In Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
, King
Chakri Dynasty

The Chakri Dynasty }} is the current Dynasty of the Kingdom of Thailand, the Head of the house is the King of Thailand. The Dynasty has ruled Thailand since the founding of the Ratthanakosin era and the city of Bangkok in 1782 following the end of King Taksin of Thonburi's reign, when the capital of Siam shifted to Bangkok....
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Bhumibol Adulyadej

Bhumibol Adulyadej , is the current Monarchy of Thailand. Publicly acclaimed "the Great" , he is also known as Rama . Having reigned since 9 June 1946, he is the world's List of longest reigning current monarchs current head of state and the List of longest reigning monarchs of all time monarch in History of Thailand....
, the world's longest-reigning monarch, celebrated his Golden Jubilee on 9 June 1996.
In Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
, Tuanku Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah, the Sultan of Kedah celebrated his Golden Jubilee on 15 July 2008 after 50 years successfully reigning the state of Kedah
Kedah

Kedah is a state of Malaysia, located in the northwestern part of Peninsular Malaysia. The state covers a total area of 9,425 km?, and consists mostly of flat areas growing rice, plus the island of Langkawi....
.

Golden Jubilee

In the Commonwealth Realms

For Queen Elizabeth II

For Queen Victoria

Of other monarchs of Great Britain

In Japan

In South Asia

Film terminology

In other countries

See also