Lily of the valley was the Queen's favourite flower and was included in her coronation bouquet in 1953. Her childhood nickname was Lilibet and the poem also refers to lily of the valley as 'a ...

Poem to mark Queen's death penned by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage - and it features one of her favourite flowers. The poem employs the form of a double acrostic, meaning the first letter of each ...

Lily of the valley, one of the Queen’s favourite flowers Credit: Buckingham Palace/PA. The poem employs the form of a double acrostic, meaning the first letter of each line spells out Elizabeth ...

Don’t go looking for a shot of spring joy from this poem (or from Plath on the whole, for that matter), but if you recognize as Plath does that flowers have more emotional heft in them than pure ...

Poet laureate Simon Armitage has honoured Queen Elizabeth II with a new poem titled “Floral Tribute”, which was shared on Tuesday (13 September).. The Queen died “peacefully” at Balmoral last Thursday ...