The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations will include Mary Berry and MasterChef’s Monica Galetti supervises a competition to create a new pudding, as well as a BBC concert. “some of the world’s biggest entertainment stars.”
Buckingham Palace has today revealed information about June’s events. The Queen will be celebrating 70 years of her reign, and there will be a four-day bank holiday starting June 2. Next month, she will turn 70.
The debut event on May 29 will be a competition to invent a new pudding celebrating the Queen’s reign, hosted by UK favourite Berry and MasterchefGaletti will be hosting along with Buckingham Palace Head chef Mark Flanagan. According to the Palace the winner recipe will be made publicly available and the pudding will be served during Big Jubilee Lunches over the weekend. The competition comes 70 years after the coronation chicken dish was invented to mark the Queen’s coronation in 1953.
Later in this week, the BBC will broadcast and stage a live concert at Buckingham Palace “bringing together some of the world’s biggest entertainment stars.”
Various other events are planned, including a Queen’s Birthday Parade with 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians, a Big Jubilee Lunch and a Platinum Jubilee Pageant.
The Queen is currently facing difficult times and the celebrations are a fitting way to mark her birthday. Her recent illness has left her in a state of severe decline. Prince Andrew, her son, is fighting legal battles against Virginia Roberts Giuffre (of Jeffrey Epstein) for accusations.