PATRIOTIC people are being encouraged to line the streets of Edgware to welcome Her Majesty to Harrow on March 29.
The route that The Queen and Prince Phillip will be taking to Krishna-Avanti Primary School as part of the first day of the London leg of her nationwide Diamond Jubilee tour has been announced so that well-wishers can decide where to stand.
The royal party will head up Edgware Road and then drive slowly down Camrose Avenue, which will be closed for the day from 11am, to greet locals ahead of arriving at the school at 2.45pm for a community showcase and the unveiling of a plaque and presentation of a tapestry.
Temporary big screens will be installed outside the school to allow people to follow The Queen's visit inside the school.
The 3x2ft woven tapestry, being made by Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, which will show Hindu saint Lord Chaitanya in a forest setting surrounded by animals, one of the parables he is associated with.
Her Majesty will be entertained by a Diamond Jubilee choir drawn from various vocal groups in Harrow who will sing a Diamond Jubilee Choral Fanfare written by composer Brian Kesselman.
The lyrics have been lifted from the ‘Never had man more joyful day’ passage from 16th century poet Edmund Spenser’s work Epithalamion and the ‘When the Sun Shineth’ extract from 15th century writer George Pettie’s A Petite Pallace of Pettie his Pleasure.
Meanwhile, every school in Harrow has been invited to send two children and a teacher to the celebrations and dance groups and other local performers will participate in a showcase of talent in front of the royal couple in giant marquees to be put up in the school's grounds and outdoor amphitheatre.
The Queen is expected to leave the same way she came at between 4pm and 4.30pm.