Free time is good, isn’t it? If you feel like your 2022 selves deserve more free time, there’s great news for future us: in 2022 the Queen will have been the Queen for a walloping 70 years, meaning it’ll be time to celebrate the platinum anniversary of her reign with a massive summer blowout.
The late spring bank holiday will be moved to Thursday June 2, and a new bank holiday will be added on Friday June 3 – meaning we can all spend four days straight revelling in Liz Windsor’s big day.
Last year, culture secretary Oliver Dowden promised ‘a celebration to remember’ and now, more concrete plans have been announced.
The Thursday (2nd June) will see the return of Trooping the Colour in full, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, with more than 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians taking part in the festivities. On the same day, Platinum Jubilee beacons (whatever that means), will be lit across the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories.
On Friday 3rd June, there will be a ‘service of thanksgiving’ for her Maj at St Paul's Cathedral.
On the Saturday of the long weekend, the Queen and other royal family members will get together for the Derby at the Epsom Downs. In the evening, there’s going to be a massive concert at the palace. The line-up is TBC but, y'know, it’s the QUEEN, so expect big things.
Then on Sunday, you know what time it is? That’s right, street party time. It’s being billed as the Big Jubilee Lunch and you can expect streets all over the UK to be filled with bunting, massive cut-outs of the Queen and lots of cake, you know the drill. Also happening that day is the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, which will bring together 5,000 performers at Buckingham Palace for a big old shindig with ‘street arts, theatre, music, circus, carnival and costume.’
Whether you’re a big fan of the Queen or you just like having an extra day off work, a four-day weekend can never be a bad thing, can it? Roll on the 2032 jubilee!
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