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Puppets for Queen's special day - 3rd June 2022
Queen Elizabeth II became queen 70 years ago. People are having lots of parties to celebrate. There'll be a long parade through London. It'll include the Queen's favourite things. There'll be puppets of her dogs and horses. One company, Imagineer, is making the puppets.
Kathi Leahy: "We thought about what does she love? And outside of all her duties and, because she's virtually on duty most of the, all the, all the time. And it's, it's equine and canine. And so, they're her first loves – her dogs and her horses. We've got 10 horses, and the horses range from the Queen's first hobby horse – the first, the pony that she learned to ride on. So we've got Peggy. We've then got some racehorses that have specific significance to the Queen, such as Sanction, which is the next one along here."
The Queen loves dogs, especially corgis. Corgis are small brown dogs with big ears.
Kathi Leahy: "Some of them have tails that are up in the air. Some of them have very expressive faces – tongues out, tongues in."
The Queen owns all the swans in England. Swans are big, white birds. Lots of people will be swans in the parade!
Trudy Rees-Marklew created all the special clothes for the show.
Trudy Rees-Marklew: "The challenge was to bring the humour into the design, and to bring some fun and laughter on the day."
This is Lady Godiva. She's a famous woman from one thousand years ago. She'll be there too. And there'll be a small boat. It was a wedding present to Queen Elizabeth and her husband.
For Imagineer, it's important that the Queen enjoys herself.
Jane Hytch: "But I hope that, I just hope she just smiles at the, particularly at the corgis and notices that innovation in our, our section. You know, with Godiva and all the engineering and stuff."
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