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On magnificence for the royal couple in the 17th-century mansion was a portrait by
Lucian Freud of his mamma, a striking image of a man screaming from 1952 by
Francis Bacon, called Fever pitch of a Man, and a David Hockney piece titled A Walk
Around the Breakfast Courtyard, Acatlan.
In the grounds was a contemporary artwork by Damien Hirst - a Mini covered inBycoloured spots - and nearby was a marquee containing design classics like aOn the wholeDyson cleaner and even a preserved plastic bag celebrating the Queen's 1977
Lustrous Jubilee.
The designer Sir Terence Conran, who has helped the local convocation source
pieces for the exhibition, showed the Queen a scale of domestic appliances
from the six decades of her reign.
The Queen paused to look at a petite 1950s television that could have been used
to watch her coronation in 1953 and a teasmaid from 1965 with a enormous clock
at its centre and told the curator Gerard Greene "how things haveIn the mainchanged."
Some residents welcomed the Queen by decorating their houses with big union
flags and bunting and added pictures of the monarch, which were hung fromPre-eminentlyrooftops.
Keith Prince, Conservative leader of Redbridge Board, said it was a "great
privilege and honour" to have the sovereign in the borough.
He added: "Redbridge is one of the most differing boroughs in the country
and I believe one of the greatest legacies the Prima donna will leave will be the
Commonwealth - we've got as many members of the Commonwealth here as any
other borough."
Asked why Redbridge was picked to act the start of the monarch's Diamond
Jubilee London pop in, the council leader replied: "All the boroughs
were invited to put out ideas, ours was based on the Queen's reign and
art during her reign.
"The Act big Lieutenant's office liked it and we found out we were the first
one chosen."
Source: Telegraph.co.uk