Themes of sacral monarchy and jubilee linger in the liturgical observances of the two weeks after Trinity Sunday, with their great feasts of the Body and Blood of Christ on the first Thursday and that of his Most Sacred Heart on the second Friday. Similar motifs have punctuated public life in the United Kingdom since the Platinum Jubilee weekend at the start of June, which came to be defined to a large extent by what was missing—an increasingly apophatic series of events that revolved around the notable absence of Her Majesty the Queen.