Details of celebrations to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next June have been revealed by Buckingham Palace.
There will be a four-day Bank Holiday weekend from Thursday, 2 June to Sunday, 5 June, with events including a pageant with 5,000 performers.
A live concert at Buckingham Palace, called the Platinum Party at the Palace, will feature “the world’s biggest entertainment stars”.
And the Queen will head to the Derby, at Epsom Downs, with her family.
The events will mark the Queen’s 70-year reign, a milestone she will have reached on 6 February next year – becoming the first British Monarch to do so.
As with the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, the first week in June has been chosen for the celebratory weekend, with the summer offering a better chance of good weather than February.
The Queen will be 96 at the time of the Platinum Jubilee events, taking place exactly a year from now.
To create the four-day weekend, the late May Spring Bank Holiday that year will be moved to 2 June and an additional Bank Holiday on 3 June created.
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