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One of the last pieces of jewelryQueen Elizabethwore in public is sparkling on.
A Platinum Jubilee Brooch is ready for display at the Goldsmiths' Fair in London, which opens to the public Tuesday for a two-week exhibit. The diamond-encrusted pin is a delicate duplicate of the one the Queen wore to light thePrincipal Platinum Jubilee Beaconat Windsor Castle in June, igniting the first night of thePlatinum Jubileeto celebrate her 70-year reign.
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The glittering pin is stamped with a number on the back to mark it apart from the broochQueen Elizabethwore to light the beacon in June. There, the Queen stepped out in the sentimental piece as she symbolically tapped the Commonwealth Globe of Nations, placed on a podium. The touch set off a chain of lights leading to the Principal Beacon outside Buckingham Palace.
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The beacon took the form of a sculpture dubbed the “Tree of Trees,” which stood 70 ft. tall in honor of the Queen and her astonishing 70 years on the throne. Around3,000 beacons, including fires and gaslit torches, were lit around the U.K. at the same time.
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“She’s our country, our nation, and our Commonwealth, and I believe she’s the person that everybody really looks up to,” beacon pageant master Bruno Peek toldPEOPLEat the time of what the gesture meant. “She’s got such continuity.”
Goldsmiths heralds the Platinum Jubilee Brooch as the “highlight” of its larger Platinum Exhibition. Its annual fair ends October 9.
source: people.com
