The highlight of the celebrations will be the first (long) weekend in June, but the events scheduled for the first Platinum Jubilee of a British ruler will not stop in London. The whole UK will be involved in the celebration in honor of the Queen Elizabeththat the working members of the Royal Family will undertake to represent in visits and short tours outside London.
The first to go will be the Prince William And Kate Middleton. After the greeting to the subjects from the balcony of Buckingham Palace at the end of Trooping the ColorThursday 2 June, the Dukes of Cambridge will set off on the Wales, a place very dear to them. In 2011, the year of their wedding, William and Kate in fact they had lived hereon the small island of Anglesey (they were the first members of the royal family to live together before the wedding) where the prince was finishing his training in the Royal Air Force. “This island was our first home and will forever remain a special place for us,” William had said, leaving Anglesey after the birth of Georgewho lived her first months of life here, “Catherine and I can’t wait to come back here, over the next few years, with our whole family.”
The uncle Edward and his wife Sophie of Wessexwho will also be next to the Queen on the balcony, after the ceremony that will kick off the celebrations they will go in northern Irelandvisit very important also from the point of view politic right now, after the historic success of the Sinn Féin – the former political arm of the IRA that wants theUnited Ireland – to recent administrative elections in Ulster.
In Scotlandinstead, it will go there Royal Princess Anna: a not accidental destination given that since 2000 it has been invested withOrder of the Thistle, the highest Scottish honor, in recognition of the commitment paid in his works to the enhancement of Scotland. It is here, among other things, that the royal princess married her second husband Timothy Laurence.
Buckingham Palace has not yet released detailed travel plans, so it is not known whether everyone will return from their tours in time for the Thanksgiving feature to St Paul’s Cathedralto which the Prince Andrew ei dukes of Sussex, banished from the balcony of the royal palace.
It is a few days ago in fact the news that the Queen has decided to admit on the terrace exclusively «the members of the Royal Family who at the moment fulfill public commitments on behalf of the QueenAnd their children, effectively excluding Andrea and Harry, with his wife Meghan Markle. Which, however, immediately afterwards have assured – against all initial predictions – their presence in London in those days.
A decision that many in Britain have read as a challenge or worse, as an “attempt at monetize the celebrations for his majesty ». Even if the Sussexes and their children will not be allowed on the balcony, they will be welcome – the well-informed guarantee – in the other scheduled events, even if not in an official capacity. And one wonders if it will be enough for them.
The Queen invited Harry and Meghan Markle to the Buckingham Palace balcony
George of Cambridge will be the star of the Queen’s (great-grandmother) Platinum Jubilee
Queen Elizabeth and the complete Platinum Jubilee program
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