Queen's jubilee

Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II will not attend a church service to mark her Platinum Jubilee after experiencing "discomfort" at events on ...

So I wanted to come to show my support today and say thank you.” And 12 protesters were arrested Thursday after getting past barriers and onto the parade route. He was flanked by his sister, Princess Anne, and oldest son Prince William. The queen, wearing a dusky dove blue dress designed by Angela Kelly, was joined on the balcony by more than a dozen royals — though not Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, who gave up front-line royal duties two years ago. “I know that many happy memories will be created at these festive occasions,” Elizabeth said. Smiling, she chatted with her great-grandson Prince Louis, 4, who occasionally covered his ears as 70 military aircraft old and new swooped low over the palace to salute the queen. The decision also, handily, excluded Prince Andrew, who stepped away from public duties amid controversy over his links with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Tens of thousands of locals and tourists lined the route between palace and parade ground to take in the spectacle and the atmosphere. This country does like a good party. Yet after a lifetime of good health, age has begun to catch up with her. The six-minute display included a formation of Typhoon fighter jets flying in the shape of the number 70. Many people have taken advantage of the long weekend to go on vacation.

Members of Britain's royal family will head to St. Paul's Cathedral in London on Friday for a jubilee thanksgiving service in honor of Queen Elizabeth II's ...

The Dean of St Paul's, David Ison, is leading the service, which will include Bible readings, prayers and congregational hymns to honor the Queen's 70 years on the British throne. Friday's event is the first royal occasion at which it rung out since its restoration in 2021. They were seated in the second row, alongside Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, the daughters of Prince Andrew, and their husbands. Keaveny leads London's financial district, known as the Square Mile. Prince Charles is representing the Queen at the thanksgiving service. The congregation includes key workers, teachers and public servants as well as representatives from the Armed Forces, charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups, according to Buckingham Palace. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and London Mayor Sadiq Khan are also among those in the audience.

It is the first major royal event Prince Harry and Meghan have attended since stepping down from their official duties in 2020.

In a surprise move, the couple announced in January 2020 that they were stepping back as senior royals. The two sides agreed to a review of the situation after 12 months. He is bringing a claim against the British government after being informed he would no longer be given the “same degree” of personal protective security when visiting Britain. The prince offered to pay for the security himself, but Britain’s Home Office declined. Last summer, he returned to Britain to unveil a statue of his late mother, Princess Diana. She has been struggling with what the palace calls “mobility issues” in recent months and has missed a number of engagements. Harry and Meghan named their daughter after Elizabeth, using the queen’s childhood nickname.

The Queen will miss the St Paul's service but joined a beacon lighting ceremony on Thursday evening.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: How will you be marking the platinum jubilee? It's at short notice, with the programme for the church service already printed. The event begins at 11:30 BST on Friday, with coverage starting on BBC One from 09:15. It will be Prince Harry and Meghan's first royal event together since leaving the UK two years ago. Do you have alternative plans?

LONDON—Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have spent the past couple of days undertaking a delicate performance on the fringes of Queen ...

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Charles stands in for his mother at St Paul's Cathedral in ceremony that pays tribute to her seven-decade reign.

After the service, as the congregation filed down the steps of St Paul’s, they passed the spot marking another queen’s absence from her own service. Shortly after the service it was announced that the Queen would not attend the Epsom Derby on Saturday. Princess Anne is expected to go in her place. And we are all glad that there is still more to come. They arrived by car shortly after the long line of other assorted royals who earlier had disgorged from a coach to file into the cathedral. Instead the couple were seen returning to Frogmore Cottage, their Windsor home. The symbolism of a great state service of thanksgiving for an absent Queen was not lost beneath the imposing dome of St Paul’s Cathedral. All the more so as the country was paying tribute to her seven decades of public service as Britain’s now longest-reigning monarch.