Londoners in the street with a life-size cardboard cut-out of Queen Elizabeth stands in the entrance of a pub in the City of London ahead of a weekend of nationwide celebrations for the monarch's Diamond Jubilee. A few months before the Olympics come to London, a multi-cultural UK is gearing up for a weekend and summer of pomp and patriotic fervour as their monarch celebrates 60 years on the throne and across Britain, flags and Union Jack bunting adorn towns and villages.
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