Lovilee Jubilee.

This weekend saw Great Britain celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee; 60 years passively ruling over her loyal subjects. The celebrations featured a Jubilee Pageant down the river Thames, a concert organised by (the no doubt soon to be honoured) Gary Barlow, and several other events including a Jubilee thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral.

The Jubilee concert was probably the highlight for most people, seeing as the pageant was like watching an episode of The One Show – a wet one at that. The concert featured such big names as Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Tom Jones, Jessie J, Alfie Boe, Madness and… Cheryl Cole.

A Right Royal Shindig.

The royal wedding is fast approaching, so far I’ve been lucky enough to escape the media coverage, but this week it is impossible to avoid. Absolutely impossible. It’s all starting to feel a bit like Glastonbury with people pitching up little tents along the streets of London, the brave little blighters.

I don’t really mind the royal wedding to be fair, I don’t dislike the royals and I don’t dislike the fact that the future prince is marrying. But my God, do we have to have constant wall-to-wall coverage of the royal wedding on every channel!? I wouldn’t be surprised to turn on Cartoon Network and find Ben 10 stood outside Buckingham palace telling me which Hanna-Barbera characters haven’t been invited.

Speechless.

I finally got around to seeing The King’s Speech, you know that apparently brilliant piece of cinema everyone’s talking about? Well I can confidently report back to you that it is indeed brilliant! I was quite happy about that, as after all the hype that surrounds movies these days, I usually expect to be disappointed somewhat by them.

But that’s certainly not the case with this one. This historical drama really is as enjoyable a watch as it is an interesting one. I really like these kind of movies; true stories that are linked in with history, and I enjoyed this one a lot.