Buckingham Palace has this evening (Mat 25) released the exact start timings for all the events taking place for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. As well as street parties and gatherings around the country a series of big celebratory concerts and parades are scheduled.
They include the BBC's Platinum Party at the Palace concert in front of the palace, featuring stars including Queen + Adam Lambert, Alicia Keys, Duran Duran and Diana Ross. More than 70,000 Big Jubilee Lunches are being held across the UK on the Sunday afternoon, with an expected 10 million people set to sit down with their neighbours at street parties, picnics and barbecues.
The celebration also coincides with this year's Thank You Day - originally set up to pay tribute to those who helped people through the pandemic. Celebrities Ross Kemp, Gareth Southgate, Prue Leith and Ellie Simmonds have urged people to throw the biggest thank you party for the Queen . The finale on June 5 is the Jubilee Pageant through the streets of London.
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Set to be watched by up to a billion people across the globe, more than 10,000 people will be involved in the £15 million procession.
The timings for the Platinum Jubilee weekend
Here is the rundown of what will happen as the nation pays tribute to the Queen's 70 years as sovereign.
- Thursday June 2
10am - The Queen's Birthday Parade - Trooping the Colour - begins.
10.30am - Members of the royal family leave Buckingham Palace for the parade ground.
The military spectacle will be followed by a balcony appearance by the Queen, it is hoped, plus key royals including the Cambridge children, to watch a special flypast.
9.25pm - Members of the royal family arrive to watch the lighting of the principal beacon at the palace - a 21-metre tall Tree of Trees sculpture.
More than 3,000 beacons are being lit across the UK and the Commonwealth.
- Friday June 3
11am - The royal family begin to arrive at the service of thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral.
12.25pm - Members of the royal family afterwards attend a Guildhall reception hosted by the Lord Mayor.
- Saturday June 4
5.30pm - The Epsom Derby race takes place. The Queen and her family are expected to head to the racecourse on Derby Day, where the monarch is due to be greeted with a guard of honour made of up to 40 of her past and present jockeys.
7.40pm - Members of the royal family arrive at the BBC's Platinum Party at the Palace concert.
8pm-10.30pm - The open-air concert in front of the palace, featuring stars including Queen + Adam Lambert, Alicia Keys, Duran Duran and Diana Ross, is broadcast live on BBC One.
- Sunday June 5
Street parties and Big Jubilee Lunches are staged across the country
2.30pm-5pm - The Jubilee Pageant takes place in central London, with a 3km carnival procession featuring a cast of thousands including puppets and celebrities and tributes to the seven decades of the Queen's reign. It will move down The Mall and past the palace.
The finale will feature Ed Sheeran performing, and the singing of the national anthem in front of the Queen's official residence.
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