We’re all looking forward to the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, but 11 year old Katherine Dewar from Chester is very excited for the month ahead. The pupil of Upton Heath Primary School is at the very centre of the celebrations after winning a national BBC Blue Peter competition to design the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee logo.
Katherine won in February 2011 and has seen her design appear on mugs, T-shirts, flags, hats, muffin cases and bags since then.
Her design of a crown atop a Union Jack flag, edged with diamonds is on the homepage of the official Diamond Jubilee website (www.thediamondjubilee.org) and has adorned one of First Great Western’s trains.
She will now begin a month long tour where she will unveil plaques, attend parties and cut ribbons from Cheshire to London. She has even been awarded the honour of lighting one of Chester’s Diamond Jubilee beacon in Christleton.
The beacon will be one of 4,000 beacons that will be lit throughout the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the Commonwealth. The Queen will light the National Beacon in London herself at approximately 10.30pm.
Katherine was lucky enough to meet the Queen when she and the runners up were invited to a reception at Buckingham Palace.
She said: “It was very exciting to go to the palace and we had a tour around.”
Katherine has been very busy and has even been filmed at home by a TV crew.
When asked how she felt seeing her design everywhere, Katherine said: “I’ve got used to it now.”