Parade, Pomp, Pageantry & Street Parties Keynote Final Day of Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

A crowd of 22,000 gathered at a concert outside Buckingham Palace on Saturday as Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Platinum Jubilee - an unprecedented 70 years on the British throne.

As Britain's longest-reigning monarch, the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 70 years on the throne, here is what to expect on the fourth and final day of the Platinum Jubilee weekend celebrations.

Jubilee Parade

A 3km parade will begin outside the Palace of Westminster at 2.30pm, led by the Gold State Coach that carried the Queen to and from her coronation in 1953. It will travel towards the Queen Victoria Monument outside Buckingham Palace, turning into Birdcage Walk and along St James's Park.

Street Parties

In the hours before the pageant that follows the parade, big jubilee lunches will draw vast crowds across the UK in an initiative that began in 2009 and was tailored to bring communities together. Thousands of street parties will take place, and members of the Royal family will attend lunches in a slew of diverse settings.

Charles, Prince of Wales, the Queen's heir apparent, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will attend a lunch at the Oval cricket ground in Kenington, south London - a property owned by the prince as it is part of the Duchy of Cornwall.

They will be in the company of 70 "platinum champions" from the Royal Voluntary Service and celebrity ambassadors for the charity.

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the Queen's youngest child, and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, have been invited to a "Long Table" street party along Windsor's Long Walk with members of the local community.

Pomp & Pageantry

There will also be a pageant as part of Sunday’s events. It will be divided into four acts: For Queen And Country, The Time Of Our Lives, Let's Celebrate, and Happy And Glorious.

The first will feature a military parade of 1,750 people and 200 horses. The second "act" will offer a "vibrant display of British life since 1972".

The third section, Let's Celebrate, will tell the story of the monarch’s life in 12 chapters, also featuring a 20ft puppet of the Queen as a young princess surrounded by a pack of puppet corgi dogs.

The final act will be unveiled in front of the palace around the Queen Victoria Memorial, where the public will be invited to join in, singing the national anthem led by a gospel choir and the Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines.

At around 5pm, English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran will end the celebrations with a musical tribute.

Other celebrities on the star-studded list include Sir Cliff Richard, Jeremy Irons, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Gary Lineker, Rosie Jones, Kadeena Cox, Alan Titchmarsh, Heston Blumenthal, James Martin, Bill Bailey and Gok Wan.

It is not clear whether the 96-year-old monarch herself will attend any events on Sunday since she has stayed away from festivities on Friday and Saturday because of “mobility problems”.

At the finale of the pageant, the members of the Royal Family could reportedly make an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

Queen's Platinum Jubilee 2022

Earlier, on 2 June, the 2022 Platinum Jubilee celebration kicked off with the Queen’s birthday parade, known as Trooping the Colour.

After sunset, 'beacon masters' lit fires on hilltops, castle walls, country estates in more than 2,000 towns and cities in the UK to mark the Jubilee, observing a practice dating back to medieval times.

Later that evening, the Queen announced that, although she had “greatly enjoyed” the first day of celebrations, she "did experience some discomfort" and would not attend events set for Friday.

On 3 June the Great Paul, the largest church bell in the UK, rang for five minutes ahead of the traditional thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. As he made his entrance, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was booed loudly by crowds that gathered outside the cathedral. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – were also in attendance, cheered by the crowd as they arrived for their first royal event together since stepping down as working royals two years ago.

Prince Charles and Prince William gave tributes to the Queen at an open-air star-studded Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Earlier that day, the Queen also absented herself from the Derby, one of Britain's five classic races and a gathering the Queen rarely misses. She was represented by her daughter, Princess Anne, the Princess Royal who is herself a noted equestrian. The race was won by Desert Crown, ridden by Richard Kingscote.

Paddington Bear was a special guest of the Queen’s afternoon tea, appearing alongside the monarch in a pre-recorded video voiced by Ben Whishaw.

Queen (@QueenWillRock) & @AdamLamberthttps://t.co/jqDMJrA4cJ #PlatinumJubilee #PlatinumPartyatthePalace pic.twitter.com/zPqHxFKXCL

— Willem J. Bod (@WillemBod) June 5, 2022

The video introduced the Platinum Party at the Palace, that was started off by rock band Queen and their iconic We Will Rock You, with Brian May - who appeared on the roof of the palace 20 years ago as part of the Golden Jubilee - playing a guitar solo in front of the statue of Queen Victoria. Prince George of Cambridge, eldest child of Prince William, stole the show as the eight-year old sang along to Sweet Caroline at the party.

Other celebrities featured at the event included Sir Elton John, Adam Lambert, Alicia Keys, Diana Ross, and Rod Stewart. Some 22,000 people attended the event, which was also televised live.