(CBS News) Britain is celebrating the 60-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
In a message, the Queen thanked her subjects for all their good wishes, and she promised to keep on going.
It is normally a quiet day for the Queen – it is, after all, also the 60th anniversary of the day her father died.
But this year, she has rededicated herself to public service by showing up for public engagements on a day when an 85-year-old monarch should really have her feet up beside the royal fire.
As international celebrities go, the Queen cuts an increasingly unlikely figure. A small woman, bent a little with age now, or maybe just huddled against the cold as festivities marking her Diamond Jubilee begin.
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