Queen's Diamond Jubilee
The Queen
A Queen is the person who leads a monarchy. This is a form of government in which a state is ruled or controlled by an individual who typically inherits the throne by birth and rules for life or until abdication.
The elder daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, she was born in 1926 and became Queen at the age of 25, and has reigned through more than five decades. The Queen is married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and has four children and eight grandchildren. Queen Elizabeth's rule extends across the world; she's the sovereign of 15 Commonwealth realms in addition to the United Kingdom. The sixteen current realms have a combined land area of 18.8 million km² (7.3 million mi², excluding Antarctic claims), and a population of 137 million. Nearly all the realms were once British colonies. These nations are not owned and run by the UK; they are owned and run by the House of Windsor Crown Temple syndicate within the City of London Corporation. The head signatory of the Crown Temple syndicate is Elizabeth Windsor (Queen Elizabeth II of England).
The legacy of British slavery and colonialism:
· £150 million profit made by the British from West Indian plantations alone
· It is estimated that during the last thirty years of British colonial administration British trading and shipping interests took out of Ghana a total of £300 million
· Bengal famine of 1770 killed 10 million people
· Britain's loot alone from India was worth up to £1000 million
· During British imperial rule half of India's annual net revenues flowed out of the country
· 28,825,000 Indians starved to death in 24 famines between 1854 and 1901
· The Bengal famine of 1943 claimed 1,500,000 victims
· As late as 1834 Britain had 540,559 African slaves in the Caribbean
· Prior to the European's arrival in 1772 there were 4000 black Tasmanians in Tasmania. This was reduced to 203 survivors within 59 years. By 1846 Tasmania's black population had been wiped out.
· The European settlement in Australia in 1778 saw a Black population of 300,000 reduced to 77,501 by 1921. By 1932 the population was down to 59,719
It should not be forgotten that the most powerful financial syndicate in the Western World is that of the European Rothschilds. The Rothschilds, because of their power base inside the City of London Corporation, have a controlling membership of the London Crown Temple syndicate, and they also have executive control of the Vatican and the Mafia through the P2 Masonic Lodge in Italy.
Queen Elizabeth II fronts for the Rothschilds. She is the largest landowner on Earth. She is Head of State of the United Kingdom and of thirty one other states and territories, and is the legal owner of 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the Earth's land surface. A conservative estimate of the value of the Crown Temple syndicate's land holding, under the Queen's signature, is £17.6 trillion.
Timeline
The 50's
2 June 1953: The Queen's Coronation takes place in Westminster Abbey.
4 April 1955: Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill bows to The Queen as he welcomes her to his farewell dinner at 10 Downing Street. Sir Winston was the first of The Queen's Prime Ministers; the current incumbent, David Cameron, is Her Majesty's twelfth.
17 October 1956: The Queen opens the Calder Hall nuclear power station. The plant in Cumberland is regarded as the world's first nuclear power station to deliver electricity in commercial quantities.
1956: The Suez Crisis erupts following Egypt's decision to nationalise the Suez Canal Company.
The 60's
Prince Andrew (now The Duke of York) is born on 19 February 1960 at Buckingham Palace
October 1962: The Cuban Missiles Crisis
22 November 1963: US President John F Kennedy shot dead. He was one of 12 US Presidents to have served during The Queen's reign.
10 March 1964: Prince Edward (now The Earl of Wessex) is born at Buckingham Palace.
16 October 1965: The Beatles receive their MBEs from The Queen at Buckingham Palace.
21 July 1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to tread on the surface of the Moon.
The 70's
1 January 1973: The United Kingdom becomes a fully-fledged member of the European Economic Community.
20 October 1973: The Queen formally opens Sydney Opera House.
7 June 1977: The Queen's Silver Jubilee is marked with celebrations across the Commonwealth.
1978: The United Kingdom is brought to a virtual standstill by widespread strikes in what came to be know as the 'Winter of Discontent'.
17 February 1979: The Queen becomes the first British sovereign to visit the Middle East(Saudi Arabia).
1 April 1979: Iran's main spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, declares an Islamic Republic following the overthrow of the Shah.
4 May 1979: Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female Prime Minister, arrives at Downing Street.
The 80's
8 December 1980: John Lennon is shot dead outside his New York apartment.
29 July 1981: An estimated global TV audience of 750 million tune in to watch Prince Charles marry Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral.
28 May 1982: Pope John Paul II arrives in the UK and meets The Queen.
April 1982: Falklands War.
2 March 1986: The Queen signs the Proclamation of the Australia Act in Canberra, thereby making Australian law fully independent of the British Parliament and legal system.
October 1986: The Queen becomes the first British monarch to visit China.
21 December 1988: A total of 270 people are killed when Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland. The Boeing 747 was en route to New York when it was blown apart by a terrorist bomb.
9 November 1989: The Berlin Wall is breached, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
5 June 1989: Student-led demonstration for democratic reform in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.
The 90's
11 February 1990: Nelson Mandela walks free from Victor Verster prison in Paarl, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.
31 March 1990: A peaceful march against the UK's poll tax turns into a riot that results in over 400 arrests.
1990: Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist working at the CERN laboratories in Switzerland, invents the World Wide Web.
17 January 1991: First Gulf War. British begin to bomb targets in Iraq.
16 May 1991: The Queen makes history by becoming the first British monarch to address a joint session of U.S. Congress.
25 December 1991: Fall of the Soviet Union.
20 November 1992: A fierce fire breaks out at Windsor Castle. Over 100 rooms were damaged by the fire, and the £40m restoration took five years to complete.
5 August 1993: The first public opening of Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty opened the State Rooms to the public to raise cash for the repair of fire-ravaged Windsor Castle, and they now attract more than 360,000 visitors a year.
18 October 1994: The Queen shares a toast with Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin as Her Majesty becomes the first British monarch to set foot in Russia since 1908.
30 August 1995: NATO bombs Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
5 July 1996: Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born.
31 August 1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car crash in Paris, France.
30 June 1997: More than 150 years of British control come to end as Hong Kong is handed back to the Chinese authorities.
24 March 1999: Nato bombing of Serbia and Montenegro.
1 July 1999: The Queen and Scotland's First Minister Donald Dewar salute cheering crowds following the formal opening of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
26 May 1999: The Queen signs the official declaration of the opening of the Welsh Assembly at Crickhowell House, Cardiff.
4 August 2000: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, marks her 100th birthday.
The New Millenium
11 September 2001: Thousands die in a series of coordinated suicide attacks on the United States.
7 October 2001: The armed forces of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia occupy Afghanistan.
4 June 2002: The Golden Jubilee. Her Majesty travelled throughout the UK and the world, meeting with people of all ages, religions and nationalities.
9 April 2003: The US-led campaign to remove the Iraqi leader from power nears its endgame. Saddam Hussein himself was captured in December 2003.
9 April 2005: The Prince of Wales marries his true love, Camilla Parker Bowles.
7 July 2005: Four suicide bombers strike central London, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700.
15 September 2008: Lehman Brothers collapses as the global credit crunch deepens. It is a link in a chain of events that would soon spark the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
27 November 2009: Rwanda joins the Commonwealth as the organisation's 54th member.
8 November 2010: The Queen joins the Facebook.
6 July 2010: The Queen addresses the United Nations General Assembly for the second time. Her Majesty says she had witnessed "great change" since her last address to the UN in 1957, "much of it for the better". But she adds: "So much remains to be done."
2011: The Arab Spring
2012: Diamond Jubilee celebrations take place across the Commonwealth to mark 60 years of Her Majesty's reign over the World.











