1 You can walk routes fit for a queen

Bunting at the ready for the four-day weekend celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne. Walking boots at the ready too, as you can mark the Platinum Jubilee on foot. There’s Buckingham Palace of course, from which you can stroll through St James’ Park to Westminster Abbey where Elizabeth was crowned on 2nd June 1953 – the same day news arrived that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had made the first ascent of Everest, which the papers called ‘a coronation gift for the new Queen’. Or there’s Windsor, or the Sandringham estate in Norfolk where the royal family traditionally spends Christmas, or Balmoral castle in the Cairngorms National Park where Elizabeth has spent summers since she was a child. Find guides to walks at all these majestic spots at walk1000miles.co.uk/bonusroutes