On the in­vi­ta­tion of the Plat­inum Ju­bilee Cel­e­bra­tion Com­mit­tee, T&T Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes re­cent­ly at­tend­ed the Roy­al Wind­sor Horse Show’s pre­sen­ta­tion in ho­n­our of the Queen’s Ju­bilee, which al­so fea­tured a per­for­mance from the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force Steel Or­ches­tra.

At the re­quest of the Queen, the TTDF Steel Or­ches­tra per­formed at a pri­vate re­hearsal at Wind­sor Cas­tle.

There, Pres­i­dent Weekes met with Queen Eliz­a­beth II and pre­sent­ed the Monarch with a gift from the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go in com­mem­o­ra­tion of her Plat­inum Ju­bilee. The gift, ‘Woman on the Bass’, was de­signed and pro­duced by artist Gillian Bish­op.

Queen Elizabeth and President Paula Mae Weekes

The fol­low­ing evening, Pres­i­dent Weekes joined Queen Eliz­a­beth II and oth­er dig­ni­taries in at­tend­ing the fi­nal night of the Roy­al Wind­sor Horse Show.

The eques­tri­an ex­trav­a­gan­za, en­ti­tled A Gal­lop Through His­to­ry, fea­tured 500 hors­es and over a thou­sand per­form­ers and kicked off cel­e­bra­tions mark­ing the Queen’s 70-year reign.

The TTDF Steel Or­ches­tra’s per­for­mance at the show was warm­ly re­ceived by Her Majesty.

At the re­quest of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s High Com­mis­sion­er to the Unit­ed King­dom, Vish­nu Dhan­paul, Pres­i­dent Weekes al­so vis­it­ed the High Com­mis­sion, where she met with staff and var­i­ous mem­bers of the di­as­po­ra, in­clud­ing fel­low Bish­opi­an, com­pos­er Do­minic Le Gen­dre and au­thors Ron Ramdin and Patrice Lawrence.

Trinidad and Tobago President Paula-Mae Weekes, right, meets T&T Defence Force members before their performance at Windsor Castle recently.

Courtesy Office of the President

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