Buckingham Palace is pulling out the stops to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the British throne, with a series of events and a four-day public holiday
LONDON—A baking competition. Hundreds of street parties. A large military parade and beacons lit across the country.
There is no official template for marking 70 years on the British throne because it has never happened before. The closest any British royal has come is Queen Victoria, who ruled for 63 years before her death in 1901. To kick-start proceedings, the palace launched on Monday the “platinum pudding competition” to find a “brand new pudding dedicated to the queen.”
Other events will include the Queen’s Green Canopy, a plan to plant large numbers of “celebration trees” across the country. In May, some 500 horses and 1,000 performers will put on a show that Buckingham Palace says will “take the audience on a gallop through history.”
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