JUBILEE WEEKEND: MONDAY 3 JUNE
Timetable of events
11.00 a.m. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh view "The Queen at Windsor" Exhibition at the Guildhall, Windsor.
11.30 a.m. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh watch the Windsor Golden Jubilee Parade along the High Street, Windsor.
12.15 p.m. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh travel by car to Windsor town Bridge, where The Queen unveils a plaque to mark the completion of the bridge refurbishment scheme. The Queen and Prince Philip cross Windsor Bridge and visit the High Street, Eton.
1.00 p.m. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh watch a performance of community music in the Town Square, Slough, Berkshire, and Her Majesty launches the Golden Jubilee Music Beacon on its journey around the United Kingdom. Gun salute in Hyde Park.
7.30pm Pop concert starts. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh attend, as well as The Prince of Wales, The Duke of York, The Earl and Countess of Wessex, The Princess Royal, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra.
10.40 - 11.00pm Beacon lighting and fireworks display in front of Buckingham Palace.
Monday 3 June saw celebration parties and bonfires. Communities were united in festivity through the staging of garden and street parties as well as other celebrations, including the lighting of beacons and bonfires.
At lunchtime on Monday 3 June, and to coincide with a BBC programme of Music Live, church bells, gongs, and other forms of music making were sounded to signal the start of the Festival celebrations. The Queen launched the song 'All You Need is Love' as a sound beacon during a visit to Slough.
Community celebrations ranged from simple gatherings of friends to mass events in public parks and on village greens.
In a replica of events at the last Golden Jubilee, that of Queen Victoria in 1887, a chain of beacons and bonfires were lit across the UK from Lands End to John O'Groats and from Great Yarmouth to Holyhead, at the Arctic Circle and in Antartica as well as in the Commonwealth, as a climax to the day's festivities. The beacons formed a chain across the UK including the lighting by The Queen of the National Beacon in central London.
The major formal festivities on Monday 3rd June started with a rock & pop concert in the gardens of Buckingham Palace in the evening. The concert was being mounted in association with the BBC as the climax of the 2002 BBC Music Live festival.
12,000 people from all regions of the UK, chosen by a ballot held in March, were invited to the concert. It was also seen by many thousands on large video screens specially erected in London and other towns and cities across the United Kingdom to enable as many people as possible to share in the celebrations.
The concert was held in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Before the concert guests enjoyed a champagne picnic, with a dish specially created by the Royal Chefs, and other entertainment in the Buckingham Palace garden.
The line-up performing was:
Dame Shirley Bassey
Tony Bennett
BLUE
Emma Bunton
Eric Clapton
Joe Cocker
Phil Collins
The Corrs
Aretha Franklin
Sir Elton John
Tom Jones
Annie Lennox
Ricky Martin
Sir Paul McCartney
MIS-TEEQ
Ozzy Osbourne
Sir Cliff Richard
S Club 7
Rod Stewart
Brian Wilson
Will Young
Afterwards, The Queen lit the special beacon on the Mall outside the gates of Buckingham Palace, accompanied by 300 children. This was followed by a spectacular "Son et Lumiere Fireworks" programme lasting 15 minutes in the vicinity of Buckingham Palace. Accompanied by music and huge projections on the Palace facade, fireworks and special effects were fired from the Palace, as well as from the Queen Victoria Memorial and Green Park. This was the first ever public launch of fireworks from the Palace roof and courtyard. The spectacle was shown on screens in Green Park, The Mall, Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park, as well as on giant screens in many other towns and cities in the UK. All this was accompanied by music, both classical and modern, which will be broadcast live on television and radio.
Beacons (totals registered by 10 May by Golden Jubilee Summer Party):
North West 99
North East 37
Yorkshire / Humber 139
East Midlands 144
East of England 185
West Midlands 131
South East 210
South West 314
London 24
Northern Ireland 15
Scotland 78
Wales 112
Channel Islands 6
Overseas countries 83
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