2015 will see the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta celebrated locally. To mark the occasion, there will be, amongst other activities, a boat pageant on the Thames. Thames Alive, the group behind the Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012, is organising the event. The pageant will recount the story and carry a copy of the Magna Carta created by children from the Windsor and Maidenhead borough. You will remember the splendour of the 2012 event.
If you kicked yourself for not getting involved then, this is your chance. The Magna Carta pageant is now open for registration now. A flotilla of boats will sail in a two-day relay from Hurley riverside in Berkshire to Runnymede Pleasure Ground in Surrey on 13 and 14 June. Malcolm Knight, from Thames Alive, said on the second day of the event there would be a pageant called 800 Years of Boating in which hundreds of historic craft are invited to take part.
The deadline for registering crafts is 28 February 2015.
The organisation said: “Stopping at various points on the way we recount the story of the Magna Carta and hand over the responsibility of carrying the document to a new relay bearer who will be on board the Royal Shallop Jubilant and escorted by rowed craft.”
You could be taking part in a piece of history of the future. www.thamesalive.org.uk/magnacarta