The group Animal Rebellion claimed responsibility, saying the protesters were “demanding that royal land is reclaimed.” And 12 protesters were arrested Thursday after getting past barriers and onto the parade route. Many people have taken advantage of the long weekend to go on vacation. Thousands of street parties are planned nationwide, repeating a tradition that began with the queen’s coronation in 1953. The jubilee is being commemorated with a four-day holiday extravaganza and events including a concert at Buckingham Palace on Saturday and a pageant staged by thousands of performers drawn from schools and community groups around the country on Sunday. The decision also, handily, excluded Prince Andrew, who stepped away from public duties amid controversy over his links with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Īndrew will also miss Friday’s service of thanksgiving after testing positive for COVID-19. They did not appear on the palace balcony, because the monarch decided that only working members of the royal family should have that honor. The couple traveled to London from their home in California with their two young children to take a low-key part in the celebrations, and watched Thursday’s Trooping the Color with other members of the family. The queen, wearing a dusky dove blue dress designed by Angela Kelly, was joined on the balcony by more than a dozen royals - though not Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, who gave up front-line royal duties two years ago. The six-minute display included a formation of Typhoon fighter jets flying in the shape of the number 70. Smiling, she chatted with her great-grandson Prince Louis, 4, who occasionally covered his ears as 70 military aircraft old and new swooped low over the palace to salute the queen. The palace says “the queen greatly enjoyed” Thursday’s events - and it showed. The Jubilee celebrations go on for a long weekend, and it was not immediately known how the news would affect Jubilee events on Saturday and Sunday.
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