Even more pandemic sadness in the UK: there will be no chance of tasting with the Queen in her gardens this summer, Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday.
The royal feasts on the lawn, one of the few meetings where ordinary Britons can mingle with Queen Elizabeth II and her family, will take place in 2021, the palace said in a welcome through USA TODAY.
“The resolution has been taken that garden parties will not take a position in 2021,” he said.
This is the time in the year in a row when the annual summer lawn festivities at Buckingham Palace and Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland, were cancelled due to restrictions due to COVID-19, which once again became an outbreak in the UK.
The festivities, which can accommodate thousands of visitors at once, are scheduled during the summer to allow the Queen to speak and honor a “wide variety of people from all walks of life who have had a positive effect on her community. , “according to the palace’s website.
The parties want a lot of advancement in drawing up plans, and are working on the dates and main points of the contract, which would be tricky given the ongoing precautions against the pandemic and the immediate adjustments made through the government in recent days.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new home stay order for England (the country’s third national closure) starting Tuesday and which will last at least six weeks.
It closes schools, restaurants and all non-essential outlets and will not be tested until at least mid-February. Scotland’s leader, Nicola Sturgeon, also imposed a closure on the country, which began on Tuesday.
The Royals are also affected by the new rules: all London schools, adding the elegant personal school attended by 7-year-old Prince George of Cambridge and his sister, 5-year-old Princess Charlotte, will stay as children of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge. home, Kensington Palace for weeks.
The queen, 94, and her husband, Prince Philip, 99, have basically been ingesting in Windsor Castle, 40 km west of London, since March, when she was forced to cancel the 2020 lawn festivities during the pandemic. Since then, he has stayed away from his workplace at Buckingham Palace and has fulfilled the maximum of his commitments through videoconferencing.
Although he controlled spending a few weeks on his Balmoral estate in Scotland for his annual summer holidays, he had to cancel the annual Christmas festivities with his extended circle of relatives at Sandringham in Norfolk. She and Philip celebrated Christmas alone and quietly in Windsor.
Invitations to royal parties on the turf are highly coveted in Britain, and are very important for the monarch’s strategy of constant adaptation to bond with her subjects and the position of the monarchy in general.
As he once said, “you have to make me know to be believed. “
Garden parties began as a replacement for the old-fashioned “presentation parties” attended by upper-class beginners, but became a means for the royal circle of relatives to recognize the public service of all Britons.
The palace says that the queen welcomes more than 30,000 visitors a year to the festivities, which take place in the magnificent gardens of the palace. According to palace statistics, at each party, about 27,000 cups of tea, 20,000 sandwiches and 20,000 slices of cake. are consumed.
The dress code is tomorrow’s outfit or costumes for men and day suits for women, hats or headdresses.
Usually the sun shines, but even when it rains, the queen continues with a transparent umbrella so that everyone can see the little monarch in her brightly colored suits and hats.