London, Feb 6: Queen Elizabeth met erstwhile cookery school student who helped create coronation chicken, which was linked to the beginning of the monarch’s 70-year rule.
The Queen met Angela Wood who helped to perfect the dish served to guests after the Queen’s 1953 coronation ceremony, the Guardian reported.
Wood was just 19 when she helped invent the dish. The 95-year-old queen met Wood in the ballroom of Sandringham House. Members of the local community were also there to mark the eve of her Platinum Jubilee. Her platinum jubilee will be celebrated across UK during an extended June bank holiday. The event ended with the cutting of an iced Victoria sponge with the platinum jubilee logo as its decoration.
The 95-year-old Queen was seen leaning on a walking stick. Her health raised concerns across the nation last fall after she was briefly admitted to a hospital in October. The Queen was joined by members of the Sandringham Women’s Institute, pensioners who live on the Sandringham Estate, West Norfolk Befriending and Little Discoverers, an early-years charity for children with disabilities.
Vice-president of the Sandringham WI Yvonne Browne said the Queen, was in “sparkling” form.
“Seventy years on the throne shows the Queen has been a moving example to absolutely everyone in all walks of life,”
Browne stated. “She’s been a constant, compassionate and stoic, everything that makes a perfect human being, and has a great strength of character and has overcome so many things,” she added.
Queen ascended to the throne February 6, 1953. Her Majesty is the first monarch in history to reach the historic milestone of 70 years on the throne.
