🍃 Today marks the launch of @QGCanopy, a a unique, UK-wide tree planting initiative created to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022.
📸 The Queen and The Prince of Wales with the first Jubilee tree, planted earlier this year.
🌱🎥 ‘Planting a tree is a statement of hope and faith in the future.’
The Prince of Wales, Patron, recalls planting the first Jubilee tree in the grounds of Windsor Castle alongside The Queen, during the planting season (October - March).
🌲 The tree planted by The Prince of Wales to launch @QGCanopy is a Verdun Oak.
Verdun Oaks were first planted in the UK after WW1, cultivated from acorns collected from the battlefield at Verdun.
The acorns were sent from France to be distributed as war memorials.
🌲 From June, schools and community groups can apply for three million free @QGCanopy saplings through the @WoodlandTrust.
📸 Those who have planted a tree can submit a photograph to the @QGCanopy interactive map, which will be used to track Jubilee tree plantings from October.
🌱#DidYouKnow that The Queen has planted more than 1,500 trees across the world?
Her Majesty has also spoken alongside Sir David Attenborough about the importance of trees in the Earth’s future.
The @QGCanopy will create a pilot training programme for unemployed young people aged 16-24 through @capelmanor, London’s only specialist environmental college.
📸 The Queen at the opening of @capelmanor’s memorial garden for The Queen Mother, their former Patron, in 2010.
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The official invitation for the Coronation of The King and The Queen Consort has been revealed.
Designed by Andrew Jamieson, the invitation features the Green Man, an ancient figure from British folklore, symbolic of spring and rebirth, to celebrate the new reign.
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The design also includes the floral emblems of the UK, a British wildflower meadow and wildlife, alongside both Their Majesties’ coats of arms.
🤝 The Earl and Countess of Wessex visited Antigua and Barbuda where they were welcomed with a Guard of Honour before meeting Prime Minister Gaston Browne.
During a reception at Government House Their Royal Highnesses met local craftspeople, creatives and community groups.
🏏 The Earl and Countess visited the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium where they were welcomed by cricket legends Sir Viv Richards himself, Sir Richie Richardson and Sir Curtly Ambrose.
Today The Earl and Countess of Wessex visited St Vincent and the Grenadines as part of their Caribbean tour.
🏏 🏃🏽♀️ At the Sir Vincent Beache National Stadium, The Earl met sportsmen and women who will take part in the Commonwealth Games this summer in #Birmingham2022.
💃 At St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College, The Countess watched La Gracia Dance Company perform, as well as meeting local women’s groups to learn more about their role in the community's response to the eruption of the La Soufriere Volcano.
🏅During a reception at Government House, Their Royal Highnesses presented 13 Duke of Edinburgh’s @intaward Gold Awards.
Over the next 70 days, as we countdown to the #PlatinumJubilee Central Weekend, we’ll be sharing an image a day of The Queen – each representing a year of Her Majesty’s 70-year long reign.
🌎 In 1952, rationing was still in place in the UK for certain commodities following World War Two. Tea rationing ended in this year, though rationing did not end completely until 1954.