Another Jubilee

I'm loving the images we're seeing on our national evening news 

about the Diamond Jubilee.

It reminded me that I have a silver sixpence 

minted in Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee year, 1887.

I bought it when G and I were in England for my cousin's wedding, 

a few months before our own wedding, 

so that I could comply with the wedding day custom 

for brides to wear:

Something old, something new,

Something borrowed, something blue,

And a silver sixpence in her shoe.

 

Best wishes to the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee!

(Do you think she might have followed the bridal custom herself?)