Excitement builds ahead of Trooping the Color parade – latest updates

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Bunting, corgis, and dedicated royal fans are already lining the streets in eager anticipation of today’s events, with many having camped out overnight to get a prime spot outside Buckingham Palace.

Here are the details of the official Platinum Jubilee festivities taking place today.

Trooping the Color parade: 10am

The Queen will take a salute from the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the Trooping the Color this year. More than 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians will come together at the traditional Parade to mark The Queen’s official birthday. They will proceed down The Mall to Horse Guard’s Parade, joined by members of the Royal family on horseback and in carriages.

RAF fly-past: 11.45am to 1.15pm

The event will end with an RAF flypast, watched by members of the Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony.

Lighting of the beacons: 9.25pm

Buckingham Palace has confirmed that the UK’s long-running tradition of celebrating Royal Jubilees, weddings and coronations with the lighting of beacons will also take place today.

Following Trooping the Color, the Queen will return to Windsor for a night-time ceremony during which she will symbolically light the principal jubilee beacon, as part of a dual ceremony with her grandson the Duke of Cambridge.

Beacons will also be lit in each of the capital cities of Commonwealth nations for the first time ever.

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