Samoa will join the celebration of Her Majesty, the Queen’s 96th birthday celebration on Her Platinum Jubilee in the Country today.
The event will be held at the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum Vailima.
The invitees includes the Head of State, his Highness Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II and Masiofo Faamausili Leinafo.
The invitation to Radio Polynesia states that the Deputy High Commissioner will open the program and while Rev. Raymond Betham of All Saints Anglican Chiurch will bless the proceedings.
There willl also be traditional welcome by Honorary British Consul with the National Anthem Great Britain and Samoa.
The keynote address by British High Commissioner HE David Ward with a toast to follow. Deputy Prime Minister, Tuala Iosefo Ponifasio will also address the audience and make a toast on behalf of the Government of Samoa.
The celebrations will include music and night of fun.
The Royal website indicated that on 6th February this year Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth.
In celebration of the unprecedented anniversary, events and initiatives took place throughout the year, culminating in a four day UK bank holiday weekend from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June. There were also community activities, as well as national moments of reflection on The Queen’s 70 years of service.
The Queen’s Birthday Parade took place last week and was trooped by the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, and more than 1,200 officers and soldiers from the Household Division who put on a display of military pageantry on Horse Guards Parade, together with hundreds of Army musicians and around 240 horses.
This annual event has now marked the official birthday of the British Sovereign for over 260 years.
During the Queen’s birthday parade A Royal Gun Salute was fired. Tickets sold out for the seated viewing of Trooping at Horse Guards Parade and view the display as the troops parade to and from Horse Guards Parade between Buckingham Palace and the parade ground. It concluded with the Royal Family’s balcony appearance.
