God save the 8+67th year anniversary

Quantity - as many new-age tech companies that only think of valuation don't seem to know - has a quality of its own. So, despite the job being wholly hereditary and dynastic in nature, 75 years on the throne for Elizabeth Windsor has to count for as much as, if not more than, an elected citizen's eight years as head of government.

There may be no MBGA - Make Britain Great Again - campaign or franchise caps and sweatshirts, but Windsor's platinum jubilee celebrations has pipped past l'affaire Johnny Depp-Amber Heard in the headlines-ticker tape stakes.

On Thursday, the 96-year-old Londoner kicked off the 4-day jamboree by doing a pope- like darshan by standing on the balcony of her residence and doing one of her prime duties, and what she has been doing best since she was crowned monarch on February 6, 1952, which Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter attended: wave.


Being the head of state of a country that has gone through musical hall, Noel Coward, the Beatles, David Bowie, glam rock, reggae, punk, disco, new wave, EDM, Radiohead and even the emoticon job of Coldplay, Windsor has seen a whole epoch pass by. Starting with Winston Churchill, she's now got a Diet Donald Trump with a posh accent as her 14th prime minister. Here's raising a glass of IMFL to her good health, and to British tourism's best brand ambassador.