Admiral Sir Tony Radakin says the Jubilee is an international event with 'over 21 nations from the Commonwealth' joining in on the celebrations. Live updates on the Jubilee: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Close eye kept on the Queen during busy Jubilee commitments
In recent months, the 96-year-old monarch has cancelled a run of major engagements including the State Opening of Parliament. A week later, after a busy autumn programme, she was ordered to rest by her doctors and advised to cancel a trip to Northern Ireland. The custom of Trooping the Colour to honour the Sovereign's Birthday was initiated in 1805, though it was deferred from 1811 until 1820 due to the illness of King George III.
From around 1700 onwards, company Colours were gradually eliminated in favour of battalion Colours, though their original purpose of marking a rallying point, clearly visible above the smoke and dust of battle, remained unaltered.The Queen's four-day Platinum Jubilee celebrations will kick off at 10am with the pomp and pageantry of the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
After the ceremony, the Queen will acknowledge the salute of the returning Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment from Buckingham Palace's balcony before she later joins working royals on the balcony to watch the traditional fly-past of aircraft. While 124 volleys will be fired from the Tower of London by the Honourable Artillery Company - an extra 42 for the City of London - from the stroke of one o'clock.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will have a prime vantage point with members of the monarchy from the Duke of Wellington's former office.
The Queen will not attend the event, but Prince Charles will be there in her place, joined by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The Queen has said she is"inspired by the goodwill shown to me" and thanked the nation as a new portrait of her was unveiled to mark her Platinum Jubilee. The image was taken by photographer Ranald Mackechnie in the Victoria Vestibule in the Queen's private apartments at Windsor.To mark her Platinum Jubilee, the Sky News Daily Podcast has spoken to people who have met the Queen - from her days as a Navy wife in Malta in 1950 to an investiture in London in 2012 - to ask what it's really like.The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh lived there between 1949 and 1950 in the years before her father died and she took the throne.
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