Gloriana

Gilded Barge to be Given to The Queen for Her Diamond Jubilee

London Evening Standard, 12 January 2012

Lord Sterling, who knows how to float

(so rare a knowledge, both bold and

quintessentially cut of an olden

courtly jib) his monarch's boat,

contrives to consort the Jubilant Diamond,

upon a rowbarge hewn from wealden

chestnut greenwood graced with golden

leaf, in Tudor flourish to Richmond.

Lord Redgrave, viz Olympian Sir Steve

to erstwhile peer and liege, shall weild an

oar of forty-four and row the dhow down-

stream this June the third, the river

pinking at the passage of Old Bess

on so sycophantic a pageant of excess.


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