英女皇伊莉莎白二世藍寶石銀禧―登基六十五周年

        The Queen is marking her Sapphire quietly and privately as Her Majesty commemorates the 65th anniversary of her father’s untimely death in 1952.Unlike Her Majesty’s Golden Jubilee （金禧）Neither The Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh are scheduled to undertake any public engagements today, although she is still be working indoors receiving government red boxes and ministerial correspondence. 

      The decision to quietly commemorate her father’s passing comes as no great surprise. In 2015, when she overtook Queen Victoria to be Britain’s longest reigning monarch, she did not take part in any celebrations to avoid celebrating the death of a relative.  

       She did, however, thank the nation for their kind messages on the occasion, commenting that the milestone was “not one to which I have ever aspired”.She added: “Inevitably, a long life can pass by many milestones. My own is no exception.”  

        Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, The Queen’s former Press Secretary, Dickie Arbiter, said: 

 “It’s important to understand that for the Queen this marks the anniversary of the day her father died.“She has always made it clear that her long reign is a consequence of her father’s early death, and so it is not a day for celebration.“She will go to church the day before, and her father will be in her thoughts then. On the day itself, she will do her red boxes, but she won’t be going out and about anywhere.” 

      Despite there being no celebrations for Her Majesty’s Sapphire Jubilee（藍寶石銀禧）  The Platinum Jubilee （白金銀禧）will take place in the same year as The Queen turns 96-years-old, and is expected to be celebrated on an even larger scale than the Diamond Jubilee in 2012.  

資料來源：Royal Central 6,February,2017