COUNTY residents can look forward to a special four-day Bank Holiday weekend in summer 2022, to mark what will be the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
A ‘once-in-generation show’ will also be part of the extravaganza to commemorate the 70-year reign, while the public are set to have two extra days off work.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden announced plans for a series of events to be held from Thursday, June 2 to Sunday, June 5, 2022, which he said will reflect the monarch’s reign and her impact on the world since she came to the throne in 1952.
The Queen will reach the landmark on February 6, 2022, when she will become the first British monarch to have been on the throne for seven decades.
The Queen hopes as many people as possible will have the opportunity to join the celebration, Buckingham Palace has said.
But Brits will lose one of their other Bank Holidays that year, to create the four-day weekend, with the late May Spring Bank Holiday moved to June 2. The day off on Friday 3 will be created specially for the event.
At the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, tens year after the Golden Jubilee, there was a pageant on the River Thames, a military flypast and concert, among various other events.
The full details of the coming Jubilee have not yet been finalised, but the country can expect similar shows of pomp and ceremony. Street parties also took place across the UK in 2012, when various other traditional activities and tributes took place, including the renaming of the Olympic Park to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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