The Queen will lead the lighting of the principal jubilee beacon this Thursday, Buckingham Palace has announced.
The lighting will take place in a special ceremony at Windsor Castle on Thursday evening, the first day of the four-day platinum jubilee bank holiday weekend.
The new engagement, added to the Queen’s jubilee diary, will see the monarch symbolically touch the Commonwealth Globe of Nations, created for the Beacons projects, in the castle Quadrangle.
This is the signal for the start of the illumination of the Tree of Trees principal beacon at Buckingham Palace
Waiting at the palace will be the Duke of Cambridge, representing his grandmother, as part of a special dual ceremony.
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