![[Queen's jubilee flag]](../images/g/gb_qejb.jpg)
image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 April 2019
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Jubilees have their origins in ancient Hebrew times. In the modern United
Kingdom and in some other countries, it is the name given to collective series
of events celebrating significant periods of the anniversary of the monarch's
reign. Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom on 06
February 1952 and has celebrated a Silver Jubilee (twenty-five years) in 1977
and a Golden Jubilee (fifty years) in 2002. Queen Victoria, the then longest serving
British monarch, celebrated a Diamond Jubilee in 1897, marking sixty years of
her reign.
Source: Source: Official website of the British Monarchy,
http://www.royal.gov.uk, consulted 09
April 2006
Colin Dobson, 8 May 2006
image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 April 2019
Photograph of example of flag from National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (London):
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/1122.html
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 April 2019
The flags below are the two designs being used for celebratory flags.
The garland of flowers comprises roses, thistles, daffodils and shamrocks for
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The flag is golden yellow with
the centred garland, within it the crowned royal cypher (EIIR) all in blue, and
the dates 1952 and 2002 on the hoist and fly, also in blue.
Francisco Manuel García, 12 June 2002
![[Queen's jubilee flag]](../images/g/gb-qejub.gif)
image
by Graham Bartram
![[Queen's jubilee flag]](../images/g/gb_qejb2.jpg)
image by Colin Dobson, 19 July 2005
I took this photograph in Victoria
Street, London, of the other flag referred to above.
Colin Dobson, 19 July 2005
![[Queen's jubilee flag]](../images/g/gb-qejcg.gif)
image by Graham Bartram
![[Queen's jubilee flag]](../images/g/gb-qejcb.gif)
image
by Graham Bartram
The basic flag (without Cardiff text) was designed by Graham and - I think -
approved by the Palace during a meeting there with him and Robin Ashburner.
NOTE: 'approved' in this case means 'accepted', and not 'official'.
Charles Ashburner, 12 June 2002
![[Queen's jubilee flag]](../images/g/gb_qejpt).gif)
image located by John Moody, 6 August 2021
Queen's Platinum Jubilee emblem design competition won by Leeds student
The Queen's Platinum Jubilee will be defined by an "elegant" emblem created by a
Leeds student who is "over the moon" after winning a design competition.
By
Georgina Morris, Tuesday, 3rd August 2021, 4:45 am
The Yorkshire Post
The 19-year-old's winning purple and white entry features a stylised crown,
incorporating the number 70, on a round background similar to a royal seal, and
will publicise the Queen's Platinum Jubilee which will be marked next June by a
special, four-day, bank holiday weekend.
Edward Roberts with his winning
design for The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Emblem Competition. Picture: Jacob
King/PA Wire
Celebrations will range from a live concert staged outside
Buckingham Palace with some of the world's biggest stars, to a day at the races
for the royal family.
The teenager, who is studying for a degree in graphic
and communication design at the University of Leeds, said: "It's just an amazing
feeling to win it, I couldn't believe I'd won it really. I thought I had
achieved something by getting to the top 100 so to even win it - I was over the
moon."
The competition was run by the Victoria & Albert (V&A) museum in
conjunction with Buckingham Palace and the Lord Chamberlain, Baron Parker, the
most senior official in the Queen's royal household, contacted the student on
Thursday to tell him he had won.
Edward, from Southwell, Nottinghamshire, has
a passion for art and design and worked on the emblem in his spare time and made
continual improvements.
The 19-year-old's winning purple and white entry
features a stylised crown, incorporating the number 70, on a round background
similar to a royal seal. Picture: Jacob King/PA Wire
The 19-year-old
described his design as "elegant" and, speaking about his inspiration, added: "I
was thinking of ways I could re-create the continuity of the Queen's reign in
the design and I had a eureka moment.
"I thought if I could create a
continuous line that incorporates the key features of St Edward's crown that
would be a really good way of representing the continuing reign of the Queen."
He said: "I wanted the design to also symbolise a royal seal and put it within a
circle to give the impression of a royal wax seal and I think that's come across
really effectively in the design."
The winning design was chosen by a judging
panel of graphic designers, visual artists and design professionals, experts
from the V&A, the Royal College of Art, the Design Museum, and a representative
from the royal household, chaired by V&A director Tristram Hunt.
Paul
Thompson, vice-chancellor of the Royal College of Art and a member of the
judging panel, said: "This clean graphic design takes us on a simple line
journey to create the crown and the number 70, beautifully capturing the
continuous thread of Her Majesty The Queen's 70-year reign.
"Drawn on a
computer, the ingenious emblem works across all scales and the flow of the line
gives us a sense of a human touch behind the digital design process."
The
19-year-old winner will be invited to attend next year's Jubilee celebrations,
including the live concert.
John Moody, 6 August 2021
