👑 After the Trooping the Colour, today's celebrations will see the Queen and her family appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch a traditional RAF fly-past of more than 70 aircraft.
🔴 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news if you're heading to central London to get a glimpse of the Trooping the Colour parade... viewing areas are now full.
📸Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have made their first appearance in a carriage for Trooping the Colour, as the Cambridge family puts on a show in honour of the Queen's #PlatinumJubilee.
👑 Platinum Jubilee latest: The Queen appears on the balcony at Buckingham Palace
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👑 The Queen is receiving a salute on the balcony of Buckingham Palace from the soldiers involved in the Trooping the Colour parade, alongside her cousin the Duke of Kent telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
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👑 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, seen in window above Horse Guards Parade.
The Duchess was chatting to Isla and Savannah Phillips, who was holding little Lena Tindall. She put her fingers on her lips to shush the girls, with them copying her and laughing
👑 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have appeared at their first public royal event since leaving the family in 2020, joining its non-working members at a window overlooking Trooping the Colour
📽️ Watch: Police wrestle 'Animal Rebels' to the ground as they break on to The Mall
The two men, who were under arrest, told The Telegraph that the group “had no other choice” than to disrupt the celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
📹Watch: Prince Louis steals the show at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee balcony moment
Prince Louis, four, put on an exuberant performance for the first event of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, photographed with an array of exaggerated funny faces.
✍️"Prince Harry and Meghan ‘stick to the official script’ to avoid overshadowing the Queen during Platinum Jubilee celebrations" | Writes @CamillaTominey
🐶Turlough Mor, an Irish wolfhound and Regimental mascot of the Irish Guards, led them on parade as the only Guards Regiment mascot permitted to do so.
He continues the tradition of having an Irish Wolfhound as the Guards’ mascot, which dates back to 1902 telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
⛈️Thunderstorms could dampen the BBC's Platinum Party at the Palace on Saturday.
The Met Office is considering issuing a weather warning as it predicts heavy, possibly thundery, showers for parts of England on Saturday evening, during the Jubilee concert telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
🇺🇸 Barack Obama has said getting to know the Queen was among the "great privileges" of his time in office, as he paid tribute to the "steadfast" monarch on her Platinum Jubilee.
He said the sovereign reminded him a little of his grandmother when they met
👑 Crowds have gathered on Birdcage Walk and at the foot of Buckingham Gate, with hundreds eager to catch a glimpse of the Principal Beacon which is set to be lit by Prince William
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
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✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.