🤴 The Prince of Wales captured the spirit of the nation to deliver a moving address of thanks to the Queen at her Platinum Jubilee party, addressing HM as "mummy".
🗣️ “You laugh and cry with us and, most importantly, you have been there for us”
🗣️ "I don’t think the Queen spends any time thinking about Boris Johnson", Tina Brown says.
Tina Brown, journalist and author of books including The Diana Chronicles, has said that she doubts the Queen spends any time thinking about Boris Johnson telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
🎤 Watch: Duchess of Cambridge sings along to Queen at the Platinum Jubilee Party
Prince Charles 'having a marvellous time' at Big Jubilee Lunch, says ambassador for the Royal Voluntary Service
"He seemed very relaxed and full of good humour. His opening comment was - because it was only half-past 11 - 'It's a little early for lunch'" telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
👑Although she is not actually expected to attend the celebrations in person, holograms of the monarch will appear on the windows of the Gold State Carriage giving the impression she is inside waving to the spectators lining the streets telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
👑 A hologram of the Queen appears inside the Gold State Coach during the jubilee pageant.
The 260-year-old coach is made of giltwood, which comprises a thin layer of gold leaf over wood telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
🌟 Prince Louis sits beside his mother to watch pageant.
🌟 The Time of Our Lives act has begun - a joyful and lively presentation of the seven decades of the Queen's reign, paying homage to culture, music, dance, and fashion.
🌟The Mall is now filled with colour in an international celebration of the Queen's reign, now focusing on the wedding party.
This includes women in the traditional Sari dress especially created for the event, along with corgis telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
🇬🇧 Some 10,000 people including a cast of 6,000 performers are involved in staging the carnival procession from Horse Guards, along Whitehall to Admiralty Arch and down The Mall to Buckingham Palace
🐉 A dragon the size of a double decker bus parades down The Mall.
The largest puppet of its kind to be solely human-operated, she is animated by a rotating team of 30 puppeteers with 15 moving the dragon at any one time
🌳 A mobile oak tree is being paraded down The Mall which has a Maypole rising out of its branches, dancers weave ribbons in and out to form an image of Her Majesty The Queen.
🇬🇧 Now we enter a transition period before the grand finale.
As we approach the finale of the show and the weekend, the crowds lining the road have been released to fill the Mall and The Queen Victoria Memorial telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
🌟 Highlights of the Pageant's final scene included:
🐴 A tricycle-powered sculptural interpretations of The Queen’s beloved pony Peggy (her first pony)
🚲A Cyclopedia, powered by 20 bicycles, carrying a Platinum Crown
🐶A pack of mischievous, misbehaving puppet Corgis
👗 The Duchess of Cambridge is wearing a fitted Stella McCartney dress in raspberry red
Stella McCartney is a brand that has used natural and largely vegan materials as much as possible
👑 Breaking: Queen appears on the Buckingham Palace balcony
Dressed in green, Her Majesty has just delighted crowds by appearing on the Buckingham Palace balcony telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
👑 The Queen has been joined by members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for a final appearance to round off her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
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!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @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.