Queen Elizabeth-Platinum Jubilee
Empire State building gleams in purple and gold for Queen Elizabeth Jubilee
London/UNI: To honour Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, the Empire State Building, a 102 story Art-Deco skyscraper, in New York will be lit in regal 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."
In the last 1,000 years, she has held the throne longer than any of her predecessors.
The 96-year-old British monarch completes 70 years on the throne this year.
She became the queen on the death of her father, George VI, in February 1952.
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