What is happening on first day of the Platinum Jubilee?
After 70 long years on the throne, the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations are about to begin with with Her Majesty's Birthday Parade, a Royal gun salute and the Jubilee Beacons.
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After 70 long years on the throne, the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations are about to begin with with Her Majesty's Birthday Parade, a Royal gun salute and the Jubilee Beacons.
Flanked by armed police and security guards and wearing his full military uniform, the prince, 73, and his wife, 74, shook hands with well-wishers outside the royal home in central London.
With just one day before the special bank holiday weekend to mark Her Majesty's astonishing 70 years on the throne begins, the UK has gone 'Jubilee-mad' as people hang Union Jack bunting.
A series of major events has been scheduled, beginning on Thursday with Trooping the Colour and ending on Sunday with a special Pageant through the streets of London.
In a special message, the nation's longest reigning monarch, 96, said 'many happy memories' would be formed during the festivities.