Event Calendar
It's a bit early for events, but as and when any are scheduled, they will be listed here. For now, you can view and./or add events on our sister website - OlympicBritain.com/calendar. Here you will find Olympic and Jubilee event listings combined. That list will also be reflected here in due course. It's on our ToDo list...
Thinking of organising your own? Add it to the calendar and spread the word. Get a Street Party going and invite everyone from the 1977 and 2002 ones as a Reunion!
Click here to find a list of the Royal Household's current engagements and watch this space for the party of the year...
From the DCMS Website:
To mark 60 years of the Queen’s reign the Diamond Jubilee will take place in 2012. The celebrations will centre around the first week in June 2012.
Buckingham Palace will be co-ordinating the Queen’s programme for the Diamond Jubilee.
DCMS is the department responsible for co-ordinating the Government response for Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
Lord Mandelson (Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, is the lead Minister responsible for this project. He made a statement on 5 January announcing the Government’s proposals and initial plans to mark the Jubilee celebrations.
"Queen to get party of century"
From the Times online:
BRITAIN is to throw the party of the century in 2012 when the Queen’s diamond jubilee coincides with the London Olympics. Negotiations have begun to give the country a summer festival of celebration lasting three months.
It is a different story from the “miserly” celebrations in 2002 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s accession. The huge crowds that lined the streets of London to greet her were seen as a rebuke to Downing Street’s lack of enthusiasm. This time there will be concerts in royal parks and events on the Thames, possibly including a tightrope walk across the river.
Buckingham Palace, the Department of Culture and the mayor of London’s office have agreed that the celebrations will start at the end of May 2012, just as the Olympic torch makes its way through Britain before the opening of the Games on July 27. The procession will be mirrored by torches lit at vantage points across the nation to celebrate 60 years of the Queen’s reign. She will then attend the opening of the Olympics.