The Queen Thanks the U.K. for Planting 1 Million Trees for Her Platinum Jubilee

Last May, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles both put on their wool coats and went outside to plant a sapling, officially launching one of the biggest efforts to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. Then, in October, they planted a beech tree and sat in on an outdoor education class in Scotland to announce that tree planting season had begun. Six months later, the season for planting trees has ended, and the Queen’s Green Canopy, a charity founded to support the effort, has announced that the “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee” program led to 1 million new trees across the United… Read Full Article