Queen holds reception to mark eve of Accession Day
The Queen, wearing a pale blue dress with white brocade and carrying her black handbag, cut an iced Victoria Sponge featuring the Platinum Jubilee logo as its decoration at the reception.
She was also given a posy featuring flowers that formed part of her coronation bouquet, thanking the young girl and saying "aren't they pretty?". The Queen reminisced with a group of former Sandringham Estate workers about devastating floods in Norfolk in 1953. But the jubilee events at Sandringham are also something of a re-emergence for the Queen after a series of public appearances cancelled in the autumn because of health worries.
One of her childhood friends, Lady Glenconner, said the Queen knew she would become a monarch "from a very young age" and was given a "wonderful example" by her father.
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