Children nominated as Honorary Flagmasters receive Angmering Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Awards

Lady Emma Barnard, left, at the Angmering Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Awards ceremony. Picture: Angmering Camera Club

Outstanding young people in Angmering have been presented with awards by the Lord-Lieutenant of West Sussex, Lady Emma Barnard, in recognition of the exemplary way they performed their duties as Honorary Flagmaster during the celebrations for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in the summer.

Each of the village's schools was asked to nominate a child and the three chosen were presented with mementoes at the Angmering Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Awards ceremony on Saturday, November 12. Organisers said the ceremony had an added poignancy, as it followed the death of the Queen.

Kai Oliver-Page from The Angmering School was first to raise the Jubilee Flag, to launch festivities in the village on May 2. Charlie Rowsell-Adams, a year-six pupil at St Margaret’s Primary School, raised the Union Flag on his own birthday, to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday parade at the Trooping of the Colour on Thursday, June 2. Emily Lambert from St Wilfrid’s Catholic Primary School, at seven years old, stole the show on Sunday, June 5, by raising the Jubilee Flag once more, as the sun set on what had been an eventful week all around the village.

The Honorary Flagmasters received an illustrated copy of The Platinum Queen, recording all her Christmas broadcasts, in a presentation sleeve, signed by Lady Emma Barnard, former Lord-Lieutenant Dame Susan Pyper and the Earl Marshal, the 18th Duke of Norfolk.