Queen Elizabeth: Marmalade sandwiches, rubber ducks & flamingoes left at London tribute
Global News
Palace officials have restricted access to the gates of Buckingham Palace, instead asking mourners to bring their cards and flowers to a dedicated site at nearby Green Park.
A pink papier mache flamingo, a marmalade sandwich and a Queen-shaped rubber duck are among the items being left among the cards and flowers at a tribute site to the late Queen Elizabeth II in London.
Palace officials have restricted access to the gates of Buckingham Palace, instead asking mourners to bring their cards and flowers to a dedicated site at nearby Green Park.
On Sunday, hundreds of people at a time could be seen passing through the gates of the floral tribute garden to add their bouquets and cards to the growing piles criss-crossing the site. Some people, however, left more than flowers.
A number of people had left cards and stuffed animals featuring the children’s book character Paddington Bear. One person even placed a labeled marmalade sandwich in a ziploc bag alongside the toy, in a nod to a video the queen filmed with Paddington earlier this year.
In that video, which was released around the time of the Platinum Jubilee in June, the queen and the bear share a chaotic tea and discuss their mutual love of marmalade sandwiches
Mother-daughter pair Lorraine and Angela Payne, from the West Midlands town of Nuneaton, chose a Paddington Bear card in honour of the video, which they said showed off the queen’s personality and humour.
“It was so poignant and such a lovely thing to happen,” said Lorraine Payne, as she and her daughter hung their card on a tree.
Many of the flowers were accompanied by children’s drawings, long letters and heartfelt notes of thanks. The Paynes said theirs was a simple message to thank the queen “for her service to England and the Commonwealth and the world.”
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