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Hello, listeners and welcome back to Luke's English podcast.

This is episode number 773, and it's called

what do British people think of the Queen and the Royal Family.

So yesterday I came back from my trip to London

where I was staying with my brother James for a few days. I mentioned it in the last episode and my weekend with James coincided with the celebrations for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

You might have seen reports of the celebrations on the TV or online wherever you are.

Did you see that? Did you see the stuff that was going on in London?

Big celebrations for the Queen's

platinum Jubilee, 70 years on the throne, that was the reason. So the

celebrations involved a variety of different things including a kind of military procession

through the streets of Westminster near Buckingham Palace called the

Trooping of the color, the lighting of platinum Jubilee beacons across the country, and these

beacons are basically large flaming torches, which were lit as part of a long tradition at this kind of celebration.

Also there was a service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral.

There was the Derby at Epsom on Friday, that's a horse racing event usually attended by the Royals.

Then there was the Platinum Jubilee party at the Palace, which was a big entertainment

show with live music and celebrity appearances. There were Jubilee lunches and street

parties which happened across the country, although to be fair I didn't actually see any in the areas where I was visiting in South London.

I kind of got off the train expected or hoped to see parties in the streets that I could get involved in with James. but I arrived on James's street and just

whhoo just nothing going on at all. I didn't see one single street party.

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