Jubilee Bells Named After Royal Family

May 31, 2012, 08:27 PM

There's going to be a lot of bell-ringing this coming weekend -- it's a hallowed English tradition: when you have something to celebrate, you ring the church bells. The Queen's diamond jubilee is the perfect occasion: on Sunday, the pageant on the River Thames will be led by a floating Belfry of eight new bells that have been named after various members of the Royal Family. And there'll be more bell ringing later in the summer at the opening of the London Olympics, which will be heralded by the ringing of Europe's largest bell. Charlotte Ashton has been meeting some of the people who'll be doing the ringing.