Marching bands, troops, and veterans and a limitless dragon puppet will all feature in an exceedingly very very spectacular street pageant for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next June. The parade on The Mall near the castle will cap four days of events marking the Queen’s 70-year reign. Participants will come from across the united kingdom and Commonwealth. Organizers said the pageant’s budget of between £10m and £15m are visiting be privately funded through corporate partners, businesses, and individuals. Ahead of the Platinum Jubilee Weekend, the Queen and members of the royalty will travel around the UK attending a ramification of events to mark the milestone. The details of the three-act pageant on Sunday 5 June were unveiled after an announcement on the broader celebrations was made earlier this month. The Queen is visiting be 96 at the time of the Platinum Jubilee events. Every decade of her reign, which began on 6 February 1952, are visiting be celebrated at the pageant. Trapeze artists and acrobats will feature moreover as street theatre – with a specially-written fairy story There Once is additionally a Queen by author Sir Michael Morpurgo dropped at life throughout the day. Details of the pageant’s finale are being kept secret for now. Nicholas Coleridge, co-chairman of the pageant, said the Platinum Jubilee weekend is “something of a reopening ceremony for the UK, following a period of uncertainty and hardship”. “Through the fusion of ceremonial and pageantry with razzmatazz and festival, we are visiting create a spectacle that’s directly energizing and memorable and a fitting tribute,” he said. Pageant master Adrian Evans said there would be a “sprinkling” of the late Duke of Edinburgh’s presence within the program, including a carnival-style imagination of the coronation. The Platinum Jubilee Weekend will see the late May Spring national holiday moved to 2 June, with an additional national holiday created on 3 June.