BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 04:21:00
Trooping the colour. here's our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. an appearance on the palace balcony is a centrepiece of any major royal celebration but for the platinum jubilee, there are sensitivities around some family members, so the queen has decided that only working royals willjoin her on the balcony. so cancelled, in balcony terms, are the duke of york and the sussexes. harry and meghan say they are coming to thejubilee but they won't be on the balcony. the big question, of course, is how visible will the queen be throughout the four days of the jubilee celebrations? it all begin...