But since Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, they have been used during national celebrations for monarchs. For more on the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day.

The Platinum Jubilee had a very tough needle to thread ... strand pearl necklace and diamond and pearl earrings. The Queen Victoria bow brooch was made by royal jewelers Garrard and Co. back ...

Malvern Priory boasts the most extensive collection of 15th-century stained glass in an English parish church, but this ...

Her Diamond Jubilee was held at St Paul's cathedral. Queen Victoria was crowned on 28th June 1838, aged 19. The ceremony took five hours and suffered from a lack of rehearsal. No one except the Queen ...

who were involved in the Jubilee Parade and celebrations of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee on 21 June 1887. The medal itself was struck in bronze, with a diameter of 36 millimetres. The ribbon ...

The Queen received Indian servants to mark her Golden Jubilee year. She promoted one, Abdul Karim, to become her personal teacher or ‘Munshi’. Karim instructed Victoria in Urdu and Indian ...

Local historian Gary Stone compares a photograph of the Jubilee drinking fountain in Wanstead from 1905 with one from today.

For more on the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, listen below to our daily ... experience in front of Buckingham Palace and the Queen Victoria Memorial. Alongside these are 70 columns of light ...

"An Address to the Queen" was read ... ailment early in 1884. Victoria's contact with another regional king would be less direct. In 1887, the year of her first Jubilee, she received a message ...