New details have emerged ahead of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations next year with the four-day Bank Holiday set to be the UK’s largest ever celebration.
There will be a four-day Bank Holiday weekend to celebrate Her Majesty’s 70-year reign on the throne.
An eye-watering £10-£15 million has reportedly been put aside for the weekend of celebrations in June next year.
The likes of Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Ed Sheeran will take part in the “historic” celebrations predicted to be even bigger than Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
The celebrations will begin on Thursday with the first Trooping the Colour ceremony since before the coronavirus pandemic.
There will also be a service of thanksgiving for the Queen’s reign as head of state at St Paul’s cathedral on the Saturday.
More than 6500 street performers will take part in a street parade through London on Sunday, June 5 next year.
All 54 Commonwealth countries will be represented as part of the celebrations.
The BBC predict Sunday’s showcase pageant will be watched by around one billion people around the world.
Nicholas Coleridge, a co-chair of the pageant and chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum, offered further detail at the Conservative Party press conference in Manchester.
He told The Mail: "It’s going to be the largest that’s ever put on, larger we think even than that that was put on for Queen Victoria.
“It’s not going to be London-centric. We even have a giant map, making sure that we have people from every part of our country and indeed every part of the Commonwealth.
“We’re going to have people from all 54 Commonwealth countries who are going to be taking part in this astounding parade."
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