The program to mark Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebration has been unveiled by Buckingham Palace and it will hold from June 2 to 5, with a military parade, a huge concert and a national pastry competition “to find a brand new pudding dedicated to the queen”.
Buckingham Palace had on Monday unveiled the program for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebration which will hold in June. The events will see the Queen celebrate 70 years on the throne amid a four-day bank holiday from June 2 to 5. She will reach the 70-year mark next month.
The debut event on May 29 will be a competition to invent a new pudding celebrating the Queen’s reign, hosted by UK favourite Berry and Masterchef host Galetti, along with Buckingham Palace Head Chef Mark Flanagan. The winning recipe will be made available to the public and the pudding will be enjoyed at Big Jubilee Lunches during the bank holiday weekend, according to the Palace.
The competition comes 70 years after the coronation chicken dish was invented to mark the Queen’s coronation in 1953.
On February 6, 1952, Elizabeth II became Queen at the age of 25, after the death of her father George VI. On the same date in 2022, the 95-year-old sovereign will become the first British monarch to reach 70 years of reign at the head of the United Kingdom , but also of 14 Commonwealth countries and 14 overseas territories.
To celebrate “this unprecedented anniversary”, Buckingham Palace has planned four days including two public holidays for the occasion – of “public events and activities” from June 2, the anniversary of the coronation in 1953 at Westminster Abbey.
Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebration: Military Parade And Musical Concert
The festivities will start on Thursday with a military parade, then 1,500 cities in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the British Overseas Territories as well as the capitals of the Commonwealth countries will light a torch “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 Buckingham Palace. On Sunday, more than 1,400 “big Jubilee lunches” organized by volunteers are already planned across the country.
To close the festivities, a huge parade combining “theatre, circus, music, street arts” will take place in London. “Performers, dancers, musicians, servicemen, key workers and volunteers” from “all parts of the UK and the Commonwealth”, “will unite to tell the story of the Queen’s 70-year reign in an impressive festival of creativity, “promised the palace.
Find a brand new pudding dedicated to the queen
Other initiatives “will be a lasting reminder of the Jubilee”, added Buckingham, such as the “green Jubilee canopy” – which provides for the planting in 2022 of 60,000 trees across the country – but also a national pastry competition “to find a whole new pudding dedicated to the queen “.
The five finalists of the competition, open to all cooks from the age of 8, will make their recipe in front of a jury, including the head chef of the palace. The winning recipe will then be made available to the public to be reproduced during the “big Jubilee lunches”, but also later “by the generations to come”.