Queen joined by Royals on balcony for fly-past
Bunting, corgis, and devoted royal followers are already lining the streets in keen anticipation of right this moment’s occasions, with many having camped out in a single day to get a major spot exterior Buckingham Palace.
Listed below are the main points of the official Platinum Jubilee festivities going down right this moment.
Trooping the Color parade: 10am
The Queen will take a salute from the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the Trooping the Color this 12 months. Greater than 1,400 parading troopers, 200 horses and 400 musicians will come collectively within the conventional Parade to mark The Queen’s official birthday. They may proceed down The Mall to Horse Guard’s Parade, joined by members of the Royal household on horseback and in carriages.
RAF fly-past: 11.45am to 1.15pm
The occasion will finish with an RAF flypast, watched by members of the Royal Household on the Buckingham Palace balcony.
Lighting of the beacons: 9.25pm
Buckingham Palace has confirmed that the UK’s long-running custom of celebrating Royal Jubilees, weddings and coronations with the lighting of beacons may even happen right this moment.
Following Trooping the Color, the Queen will return to Windsor for a night-time ceremony throughout which she’s going to symbolically mild the principal jubilee beacon, as a part of a twin ceremony together with her grandson the Duke of Cambridge.
Beacons may even be lit in every of the capital cities of Commonwealth nations for the primary time ever.
