On Thursday, after Trooping the Color, the Queen will return to Windsor for an evening ceremony, during which she will symbolically light the main jubilee lighthouse as part of a double ceremony with her grandson, the Duke of Cambridge.
It will touch a blue “community globe” placed on a blue and gold pillow, triggering a cascade of chasing lights from Windsor to London – ending 22 miles at Buckingham Palace.
There, the Duke of Cambridge will watch the “tree of trees”, a sculpture made up of 350 local trees, light up – the crowning moment of a 3,000-strong series of beacons around the British Commonwealth.
On Wednesday, Princess Eugenia paid her first family tribute to her grandmother. The princess said she hoped her one-year-old son Augustus would have “the queen’s patience, her calmness and her kindness, while always being able to laugh at herself and keep a sparkle in his eyes”.
The rest of the anniversary weekend will include a Thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Cathedral for the Queen’s reign. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to attend, as well as the Duke of York.
On Saturday, the BBC will broadcast a concert of all the stars outside Buckingham Palace. On Sunday, millions of people will gather for patriotic street parties, picnics and barbecues ahead of a competition on the streets of London, with a team of 6,000 performers and nearly 200 celebrities joining the march.
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