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From its smallest villages to the sprawl of London, Britain lit beacons on Thursday evening in honor of its queen’s 70-year reign.
The queen led the lighting of the principal beacon at Windsor Citadel, and her grandson Prince William lit the beacon outdoors Buckingham Palace as cities, villages and cities renewed a practice that traces its historical past to the chains of sign fires as soon as used as instruments of communication.
Organizers estimated that greater than 1,500 beacons had been being lit all through Britain, in all 54 Commonwealth nations and in abroad territories.
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