NY’s Empire Building Goes Purple And Gold For Queen’s Jubilee Celebration

London, June 4: To honour the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the Empire State building in New York will be lit purple and gold during the weekend.

According to CBS News, British-American songwriter and record producer Mark Ronson and British Consul General to New York Emma Wade Smith flipped the ceremonial switch to light a model of the building’s tower purple and gold.

Ronson said, “It’s a beacon, much in the same way that the Queen is a beacon. Someone who embodies so much of what we and the world love about the UK.”

This is part of the celebration of 96-year-old monarch’s 70 years on the throne.
She became the queen on the death of her father, George VI, in February 1952.