The program of these three days – from 2 to 5 June 2022 – has just been revealed. Military Parade, Great Concert, Street Arts and Pudding Competition will mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Le Monde with AFP
Parade, Concerts and Pudding Contests: The Buckingham Palace unveiled Monday 10 January the content of the festivities planned from June 2 to 5 to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee – 70 years of reign – Queen Elizabeth II. On February 6, 1952, Elizabeth II had become Queen at the age of 25, after the death of his father George VI. At the same date in 2022, the Sovereign 95 will become the first British monarch to 70 years of reign at the head of the United Kingdom, but also from fourteen Commonwealth countries and fourteen overseas territories.
To celebrate “This unprecedented anniversary”, Buckingham Palace has planned four days – including two holidays for the occasion – “public events and activities” from June 2, the anniversary of the coronation in 1953 at the Westminster Abbey.
The festivities will start on Thursday with a military parade, then 1,500 cities of the United Kingdom, the Anglo-Norman Islands and the Overseas British territories as well as the capitals of the Commonwealth countries will light a torch “in order to mark the jubilee “. On Friday, a ceremony will be held at St. Paul’s Cathedral in central London. A huge concert, bringing together “the biggest stars in the world to celebrate some of the most important moments of the Queen’s reign”, will take place the next day at the Buckingham Palace.
Green Canopy and Pudding Contest
Sunday, more than 1,400 “Great Jubilee” organized by volunteers are already planned across the country. To close the festivities, a huge parade combining “theater, circus, music, street arts” will take place in London. “Artists, dancers, musicians, military, key and volunteer workers”, from “all the regions of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth”, “will unite to tell the story of the 70 years of reign of the Queen in a Impressive creativity festival, “promised the palace.
Other initiatives “will recall sustainably the jubilee,” added Buckingham, like the “green canopy of the Jubilee” – which provides for the plantation in 2022 of 60,000 trees across the country – but also a national pastry competition ” To find a brand new pudding dedicated to the queen “.
The five finalists of the contest, open to all cooks from 8 years, will realize their recipe in front of a juror, whose chef of the palace. The winning recipe will then be made available to the public to be reproduced during “Great Jubilee”, but also later “by the generations to come”.