The Queen’s Platinum Celebrations: A Six-Minute Brochure featuring Red Arrows, Burning Fire and Storms to Follow the King’s Birthday Parade | UK News
A six-minute flypast featuring more than 70 planes including the Red Arrows will take place over Buckingham Palace following the Queen’s birthday parade in celebration of Platinum.
The traditional event, with dozens of Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force planes taking to the skies on the first day of royal celebration on June 2, according to the Department of Defense (MoD).
Queen expected to watch from a palace balcony with other members of the royal family – however, the Duke of York and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not form part of that group.
Earlier this month, Palace announced that the arrival of the Trooping The Color balcony would be limited to working members of her family.
The Sussexes have left their royal duties in 2020, and the Duke of York has been stripped of his royal patronage and military title due to sexual abuse allegations against him.
The balcony moment is often a big family occasion and becomes the focal point of Trooping the Colour – a military competition that sees 1,500 officers and soldiers and 250 horses from the Army’s Guard during the Parade to mark the Queen’s official birthday.
Although they will not be on the balcony, Harry, Meghan and their children will attend the celebrations. It will be the Queen’s first time meeting her granddaughter Lilibet, who is named after her.
The Queen will be joined on the balcony by the Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Earl and Countess of Wessex, Princess Royal, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent, Princess Alexandra, and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.
Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis and the children of the Wessexes, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn, will also be part of the group.
The flight will last six minutes and is expected to include three times the number of planes that took part in the Queen’s last birthday parade in central London in 2019.
Harry, Meghan and Andrew previously appeared on the balcony for the Trooping The Color contest, pictured in 2018
Displays will include Royal Navy and Army helicopters and RAF planes recently seen in response to events in Kabul and Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic.
The flyer will also include highlights from the history of the RAF, including aircraft from the Royal Air Force Battle Memorial Flight (BBMF).
BBMF operates six Spitfires, two Hurricanes, one Lancaster, one C47 Dakota and two Chipmunks, all of which have been flown on previous state occasions including Trooping the Color in memory of those who have served. fell in the army.
Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said: “I am proud that the Armed Forces are leading the nation in celebration with such a spectacular display.
“During the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, we will all enjoy the expertise, skills and talents of our Armed Forces as we celebrate the Queen’s 70th year on the throne.”
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A Spitfire (L) flies with a storm from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight 2010
Other events planned during the four-day celebration include a pop concert outside the palace featuring Ed Sheeran and a £15 million festival featuring a dragon. as wide as a shopping mall.
Queen Elizabeth is the first British monarch to reign for 70 years.
Back in 1953, the Queen’s coronation featured more than 600 planes, part of which was filmed during the first televised broadcast of the event.
