The Queen is sending her 'Fantastic Five' to all corners of the UK for her Platinum Jubilee celebrations
Here's a thread on why, and who is going where 🧵 #PlatinumJubilee
The Queen will send senior royals all over the United Kingdom during her Platinum Jubilee double bank holiday weekend celebrations next month. #PlatinumJubilee 👑 🇬🇧
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will have royal visits to ensure the Windsors spread the joy while many of the main events are taking place in London.
Princess Anne will be heading to Scotland 🏴
Anne - who is proud of her title as the 'unofficial Queen of Scots' - spends more time north of the Border than any other royal 🕰
📸 Her Majesty, Anne and Charles enjoy Balmoral games -2017
📸 Anne with Scotland rugby team -1989
The Earl and Countess of Wessex will go to Northern Ireland amid growing fears of an Irish border poll.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit Wales over the Jubilee bank holiday weekend 🏴
📸 Kate Middleton and Prince William mark St. David's Day in Abergavenny - Chris Jackson, 2022.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: "Members of the Royal family will attend engagements in each nation, including public events marking the occasion."
The celebrations begin this week at the Royal Windsor Horse Show.
The Queen and other family members, including her disgraced son Prince Andrew, are expected to attend A Gallop Through History, a pageant marking the jubilee and the 96-year-old monarch's lifelong love of horses, on the final night on Sunday. #platinumjubilee 👑 🇬🇧
There are unconfirmed reports that several of the Queen's great-grandchildren - including Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, will all ride in a horse-drawn carriage in the finale.
📸 Princess Elizabeth chats to Prince Philip at the Windsor horse show - 1949
Prince Harry and Meghan said on Friday that they will be returning from their home in America with their children, Archie and Lilibet, for the celebrations on June 2 to 5.
The increasingly frail monarch - who is due to attend the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday - will only confirm if she feels well enough nearer to the time and often on the day itself.
The Queen met Lilibet for first time at the palace as Harry and Meghan reunite with royals for the Platinum Jubilee
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The Queen has finally met her great-granddaughter Lilibet for the first time, two days before her birthday, as her mum and dad, Prince Harry and Meghan reunited with the Royal Family on Jubilee weekend.
Royal commentator Omid Scobie, one of the authors of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s biography Finding Freedom, shared details of the low-key introduction during a TV appearance this morning. #PlatinumJubilee
The Mona Lisa was left shaken but unharmed when a visitor to the Louvre tried to smash the glass protecting the world's most famous painting before smearing cream across its surface in an apparent climate-related publicity stunt 🧁 🌍 #MonaLisa
The perpetrator was a man disguised as an old lady who jumped out of a wheelchair before attacking the glass on Sunday. 👵 🍰
Celebrity watchers are bracing themselves as the jury is set to bring a verdict on Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard's explosive defamation trial in the coming days. 👀 #JohnnyDeppvAmberHeard
Jurors deliberating the duelling claims of abuse from actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard adjourned on Friday without delivering verdicts. ⚖️
Closing remarks ended with both sides urging jurors to think about other victims of domestic abuse, as proceedings were wrapped up after six long weeks. 🗓️ #JohnnyDeppVsAmberHeard
Closing arguments kicked off today after six weeks of trial proceedings.
👩⚖️Mr Depp is suing his Ms Heard over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Post, which was titled 'I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change'.
Ms Heard has filed a $100 million defamation countersuit against Mr Depp.
Here's a thread on Prince William paying an Oasis-inspired tribute to the victims and Manchester bombing bereaved 🧵
A new memorial has opened to the 22 people murdered in a terrorist attack after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017. #manchesterbombing
Prince William - the Duke of Cambridge - gave a deeply personal tribute to the still grieving loved ones of the 22 people murdered in the Manchester Arena terror bombing.