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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Pagnelli

Nonagenarian crowned Queen of her care home at Platinum Jubilee party starring ‘Marcel the corgi’

A nonagenarian was crowned Queen of her very own Buckingham Palace for the afternoon when she was a special guest at a royal tea party – complete with guards in full dress uniform and a celebrity corgi to mark the Platinum Jubilee.

At 98-years-old, widowed grandmother-of-three Kathleen Lewis, who can see Windsor Castle from the window of her nearby Berkshire care home, Mountbatten Grange, shares many memories with Queen Elizabeth II, as she celebrates 70 years on the throne.

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