This tree was planted to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953.
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early part of 2008 all three plaques were renovated and re-laid on identical plinths.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
Queen Elizabeth II. A London Inheritance's post 2nd June 1953 – Coronation D...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
City of Westminster London Memorial Garden Under these trees people of all ...
The memorial does not provide enough information for us to be able to identify this woman, who could not have been older than 43 when she...
This Silver Maple tree (Acer saccharinum) was planted in 1973 in memory of Sir Edward Muir (1906 - 1973) President of the Royal College o...
When we visited in 2004 the tree was not there. The park was undergoing some major Lottery-funded work so we thought that perhaps the tre...
The plaque can just be seen in our photo, on the wall in shadow, between the wide arched openings. The pedestrian in our photo was direct...
Why, you ask, is this plaque attached to a low, free-standing, purpose-built pillar thing rather than to the building? Because the build...
On his 28th birthday the eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (Edward and Alexandra) and so second in line to the throne, fell ill at his home at Sandringham. He died on 14 January 1892 a...
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