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Jun 2022
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The Queen's platinum jubilee celebration...

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The Queen's platinum jubilee party has continued in the United Kingdom and abroad despite the monarch of the moment not being well enough to attend events. A thanksgiving service was held at St Paul's Cathedral in London while an island in Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin has been renamed in honour of Queen Elizabeth the Second. 
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