{"id":5904,"date":"2022-02-06T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T11:21:26","slug":"uk-pm-boris-johnson-pays-touching-tribute-to-queen-elizabeth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/uk-pm-boris-johnson-pays-touching-tribute-to-queen-elizabeth-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PM Boris Johnson pays touching tribute to Queen Elizabeth II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has paid a rich tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as she becomes the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>In his message on Twitter, Boris Johnson tweeted, \u201cToday marks a truly historic moment as Her Majesty The Queen becomes the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pay tribute to her many years of service and look forward to coming together as a country to celebrate her historic reign in the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, he praised the Queen\u00b4s &#8220;inspirational sense of duty and unwavering dedication&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Today marks 70 years since Queen Elizabeth acceded to the throne, following the death of her father, King George VI.<\/p>\n<p>She was proclaimed Queen throughout the UK and Commonwealth in the early hours of 6 February 1952.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today marks a truly historic moment\u00a0as Her Majesty The Queen becomes\u00a0the first British Monarch to celebrate\u00a0a Platinum Jubilee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I pay tribute to her many years of\u00a0service and look forward to coming\u00a0together as a country to celebrate\u00a0her historic reign in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson\/status\/1490264848688689156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Four days of festivities are planned for early June, coinciding with the anniversary of her 1953 coronation, including a military parade and music concert, street parties, a nationwide &#8220;Big Jubilee Lunch&#8221; and a &#8220;Platinum Pudding Competition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-branded-very-good-neighbours-through-kind-gesture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prince Harry &amp; Meghan Markle branded &#8216;very good neighbours&#8217; through kind gesture<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has paid a rich tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as she becomes the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. In his message on Twitter, Boris Johnson tweeted, \u201cToday marks a truly historic moment as Her Majesty The Queen becomes the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[433,429,4067,4349],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}