Elizabeth II will hold a party in Buckingham on Lilibet’s first birthday

This 2022 is going to be a very special year for the Queen isabel II, since next February 6 will mark the milestone of sitting on the throne for 70 years. On this date, the sovereign, of 95 years, will become the first British monarch to reach 70 years of reign, now leading 15 Commonwealth countries after Barbados declared itself a republic in November. That is why this year its Platinum Jubilee will be held, with an extensive program of concerts, competitions and all kinds of celebrations, from June 2 to 5, including a party that coincides with the first birthday of his great-granddaughter Lilibet.

The birthday will coincide with the ‘Platinum Party’, a festival star-studded at Buckingham Palace taking place on Saturday June 4 (On that same day in 2021, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, named after the Queen’s childhood nickname, was born at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.)

Will the Sussexes travel to the UK?

what still It is not known if Prince Harry and Meghan will travel to the UK to be part of the Jubilee celebrations. Members of the royal family will gather to mark the occasion at the Queen’s Birthday Parade, ‘Trooping the Colour’, Thursday June 2. The little son of Charles of England and Princess Diana and his wife are estranged from the royal family since leaving the country and their royal duties and settling in the United States. The controversial ‘Megxit’ became even more popular with the famous interview that the dukes gave on television to their friend and neighbor Oprah Winfrey, in which they aired that a member of the Palace asked about the skin color of their son, Archie, before born.

Normally, before the pandemic, the family usually gathers on the balcony in Buckingham, in the so-called ‘Trooping the Color’ (Banner parade), which this year is held on Thursday and not on Saturday. The last time the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were seen with the rest of the Windsors enjoying the air show was in 2019, when Markle resumed her schedule after her maternity leave for her firstborn. Soon, Enrique and Meghan left their royal duties to escape media pressure.

two sad notes

In addition to this doubt on the Jubilee agenda, the celebrations on this occasion will be tarnished for two circumstances. The first, the absence of the Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April, and the second, the legal problems in which Prince Andrew is immersed, with an open judicial process in the US for sexual abuse of a minor and for his friendship with the pederast Jeffrey Epstein, which has also led to his mother, the queen, having made the decision to strip your favorite son of all military titles and royal patronage, as well as the title of Royal Highness (“His Royal Highness”), although he will remain Duke of York (as happened with the Sussexes).

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Despite all this, the Platinum Jubilee program also includes a religious ceremony of thanksgiving for the reign of the monarch at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, which will take place on June 3. As well as the BBC Platinum Party at the Palace, for which the list of performers has not yet been made public but is being billed as an event that will bring together some of the biggest names in entertainment, on Sunday day 5 the celebrations will move to the streets, with more than 200,000 “neighborhood parties”. That day, a Big Lunch will also be organized with many guests from all over the country.