Queen confirms plans for Platinum Jubilee – including extra bank holiday
The Royal Family has confirmed plans to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next year.
On top of an extra bank holiday in June there will be a long weekend of events, with Brits being given two days off work to mark Her Majesty’s 70 years of service to the country.
The first bank holiday will see Trooping the Colour staged in full for the first time since the pandemic, with a thanksgiving service taking place at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday.
The Saturday will see the Queen joined by members of the Royal Family at the Derby, held at Epsom Downs in Surrey.
That evening a live concert, called the ‘Platinum Party at the Palace’, will be staged at Buckingham Palace.
Beacons will be lit in honour of Her Majesty and there will also be a special jubilee pageant.
There will be many more public events and community activities over the long weekend, including national moments of reflection on moments of the Queen’s seven decades of service.
The actual date of her jubilee is February 6, 2022, but the celebrations will take place over a four-day bank holiday weekend in the summer.
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The May bank holiday will be moved to Thursday, June 2 and the extra bank holiday will be on Friday, June 3.
Buckingham Palace confirmed the plans with exactly one year to go until the events begin.
The Queen is the first British monarch to mark a Platinum Jubilee, after acceding to the throne in 1952 when she was 25 years old.
She previously celebrated her silver, gold and diamond jubilees.
Performers for the live concert have not yet been announced, but it is billed as bringing together some of the world’s biggest entertainment stars.
More to follow.
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