The Prime Minister will address Parliament today [Thursday 26
May] to pay tribute to Her Majesty the Queen ahead of her
Platinum Jubilee.
In proposing an Humble Address, he will praise her dedicated
service to the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
throughout her historic seventy year reign.
To celebrate the milestone, thousands of people in communities
across the UK will come together to take part in festivities
during a four-day Bank Holiday weekend spanning 2-5 June.
Events such as a Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral,
the Platinum Party at the Palace and the Platinum Jubilee Pageant
will take place, bringing people together to celebrate Her
Majesty.
Proposing the Humble Address, Prime
Minister will say:
“Today we pay tribute to a head of state whose length of
service and dedication to duty to are simply without
parallel.
“The only monarch most of us in this country have ever known
and the rock to which our nation and our people have been
anchored throughout all that the past 70 years have thrown at
us.
“That is why next week the people of the United Kingdom and
the Commonwealth will be unabashed in celebrating not the
institution of the Crown but the individual who wears it.
“This remarkable woman who by God and her right has led her
country through good times and bad.
“Who has dedicated her life to her people, to her beloved
Commonwealth, to the very idea of what a constitutional monarchy
can and should be.”
