More than 70 aircraft to fly over Buckingham Palace as part of Platinum Jubilee celebrations
Members of the Royal family expected to watch from the Palace balcony
The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations are being marked with a very special flypast and Trooping the Colour, which returns publically for the first time since 2019.
A military flypast featuring over 70 aircraft will follow a route across parts of England today before flying over Buckingham Palace.
Members of the Royal Family will stand on the balcony of the Palace and watch as the aircraft pass over the landmark.
The Platinum Jubilee flypast will begin in The Wash, North Seam Southwold, Suffolk, and Southend area. It will then make its way towards London via Swaffham, Thetford, and Colchester.
The military aircraft will then fly over Buckingham Palace around midday before heading towards Kent, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire.
The flypast is set to include more than three times the number of aircraft as it did three years ago and will last a total of six minutes.
Trooping the Colour
Trooping the Colour marks the official birthday of the Monarch, and has done for the past 260 years.
Every year, more than 1400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians come together on the first weekend of June to celebrate the occasion.
A statement from the Royal Family's official website explains, "This year, the colour will be trooped by the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, and more than 1200 officers and soldiers from the Household Division will put on a display of military pageantry on Horse Guards Parade, together with hundreds of Army musicians and around 240 horses".
The Queen's 1953 Coronation
Members of the Household Cavalry, part of Her Majesty's Procession, making their way through Admiralty Arch as they escort the Queen's coach to Westminster Abbey for her Coronation on 2nd June 1953.
The Queen prepares for the anointing at Westminster Abbey. To the Queens right is Bishop of Durham Arthur Michael Ramsey, and to her left is the Bishop of Bath and Wells Harold William Bradfield.
The Queen after the St. Edward's Crown, made in 1661, was placed on her head during the coronation ceremony. It weighs 4 pounds and 12 ounces and is made of solid gold.
The newly Queen of England walking through Westminster Abbey with her train being held
The Queen, wearing the Imperial State crown, Prince Charles, Princess Anne and the Duke of Edinburgh watching the jet planes fly over ahead - a coronation tribute to the newly-crowned Queen.
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