This year marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, honoring 70 years since her arrival on the throne. Queen Elizabeth II. is the first British monarch to achieve the feat.
The Platinum Jubilee celebration will go on for 4 days. This year, there will be street festivities as well as formal ceremonies like the Trooping the Colour, which honors the Queen’s official birthday. The celebrations will take place for 4 days from June 2 to June 5. Here is everything you need to know about Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebration.
Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebration:
June 2- The first day
To formally honor the queen’s birthday, more than 1,200 servicemen from the British Army’s Household Division will conduct the “Trooping of the Colour” ritual. With singers and horsemen, the military procession mixes majesty and history going back over two centuries. The royal family will appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to wave to people and witness a roll of military aircraft as the ceremony comes to a close. However, this year, only working royals will appear in the ceremony. In 54 Commonwealth capitals spanning five continents, flamboyant tributes will be made. Along with 2,800 beacons at the palace and across the UK, nearly 9 bridges will be lit over the River Thames in central London the capital’s landmark BT Tower, and several English cathedrals.
June 3- Festivities
A nationwide ceremony of gratitude for the queen will take place at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral. It includes an unusual ringing of the Great Paul bell. The largest church bell in the country, Great Paul, was cast in 1882. Its system failed in the 1970s, it was rebuilt last year to its full brilliance.
June 4- The Platinum Party
The 243rd staging of the country’s highest important flat-racing competition, The Derby, will take place at Epsom Downs. The queen will be attending it. The BBC Platinum Party at Buckingham Palace is certainly ready to attract some 22,000 guests in the evening. It includes 5,000 vital professionals such as frontline medics. The 2.5-hour musical spectacle will feature Alicia Keys, Nile Rodgers, and the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, among others.
June 5- The final day of the Platinum Jubilee celebration
The final day will have the Platinum Jubilee Pageant. It is a mass public parade throughout central London, concluding on the last day. Additionally, a musical and creative presentation of how British society has changed since the queen’s accession in 1952 will involve 10,000 people. Concluding the day, Ed Sheeran will sing the national anthem, “God Save the Queen.”