4-day Bank Holiday weekend announced for Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022

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4-day Bank Holiday weekend announced for Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022

A four-day Bank Holiday weekend to mark The Queen’s Platinum (70th) Jubilee has been announced for June 2022. Further plans to mark the occasion will be announced in due course: https://t.co/0i7HcMIjRO pic.twitter.com/0yZl9BXsLs

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Britain will celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s 70th anniversary as monarch with a blockbuster weekend of celebrations, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced today.[/B]

The May Bank Holiday Weekend will be moved to Thursday 2 June and an additional Bank Holiday on Friday 3 June will see a four-day weekend to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee - the first time any British monarch has reached this historic milestone.

This historic event will reflect on Her Majesty’s reign, and her impact on the UK and the world since 1952.

Activity will build across 2022 in the run up to the four day weekend, when the eyes of the world will turn to the UK.

The four day celebrations will feature an extensive programme of events that mix the best of British ceremonial splendour and pageantry with cutting edge artistic and technological displays. These will be interspersed with the traditional nationwide fanfare and celebrations.

Spectacular moments in London and other major cities will be complemented by events in communities across the UK and the Commonwealth, allowing people to join together in celebration and thanks at a national and local level.

Plans for the Platinum Jubilee are being developed in conjunction with some of the UK’s leading creative minds, event organisers and world class digital design companies. Using the talents of the UK’s cultural and creative sectors, the programme will engage young people from across the Commonwealth and use new technology in exciting ways.

In keeping with tradition, a Platinum Jubilee medal will be awarded to people who work in public service including representatives of the Armed Forces, the emergency services and the prison services. This tradition stretches back to the reign of Queen Victoria when an official medal was designed to mark her 50th anniversary on the throne.

Some good news.

Reassuring as well, as there had been abdication rumours circulating so I am glad they're obviously not true.

The milestone I really want her to reach is, at the age of 98 in 2024, overtaking King Louis XIV of France for 72 years on the throne.

Thoughts?

[Triz]

Hopefully we'll be out of lockdown by then to appreciate it lmao

That woman is gonna outlive me, I swear to god.

[FlyingJesus]

cutting edge artistic and technological displays

Gonna be a zoom quiz for Lockdown XVII isn't it

This is an interesting bit though:

Using the talents of the UK’s cultural and creative sectors, the programme will engage young people from across the Commonwealth and use new technology in exciting ways.

Not if the cultural and creative sectors have all folded because we keep getting told we can't do any shows and everyone needs to retrain in cyber * + * + * + still a long while off yet so let's see, just hope it isn't a sketch show compèred by Stephen Mulhern or something

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@FlyingJesus;

I thought the Jubilee river pageant for the Diamond Jubilee was pretty good, although doubt a then-101 year old Prince Philip or even the Queen at 96 would be up for it.

One idea I would like to see would be a revival of the traditional banquet in Westminster Hall, with items from the Royal Collection like the Grand Punch Bowl used for the first time in centuries. Divide the tickets up into the aristocracy, foreign dignitaries, charity patrons and members of the general public on a raffle basis.