By £15 million carnival planned to celebrate Queen’s jubilee
Puppet corgis and a giant 3D bust of the Queen are just some of the exciting plans lined up for the £15 million carnival celebrating the Queen’s jubilee.
Highlights will include an aerial artist suspended under a vast helium balloon, a giant oak tree flanked with a maypole dancer, a moving wedding cake and a towering dragon.
More than 10,000 people will be involved in staging the spectacle, with more than 6,000 volunteers, performers, key workers, and 2,500 members of the public.
Organisers said the million-pound pageant is being “made by the people for the people” and is a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience that is expceted to be watched by over a billion people across the globe.
It will take place against the backdrop of Buckingham Palace and its surrounding streets on the afternoon of Sunday, 5 June – covering the Queen’s coronation route from 1953.
Her majesty will be imagined in her younger days with a 20ft puppet of a youthful princess surrounded by a pack of puppet corgis.
A number of “national treasures” will take part in the finale, but the show’s director David Zolkwer said organisers want to “hold some surprises back for the day”.
There is also speculation members of the royal family may make an appearance on the Buckingham Palace balcony at the finale.
The public will be invited to become part of the performance as people gather around the Queen Victoria Memorial outside the gates of Buckingham Palace at the end.
Director Mr Zolkwer told Sky News: “It’s about ordinary people coming together from far and wide to do extraordinary things; real people with delightful, authentic stories to tell; taking centre stage in a spectacular performance filled with wonder, warmth, wit and so much humanity.
“It will be all about how, through the recollections and stories and experiences we share, we can see how we are all connected – through time; to each other; and to the Queen.”
