Pop superstar Ed Sheeran to crown Queen Elizabeth’s four-day jubilee jamboree
- The multi-award-winning singer-songwriter will appear at the finale of the pageant lauding the 96-year-old monarch’s record seven decades on the throne
- Thousands of performers paraded along a 3km route, telling the story of the queen’s life with dance, vintage cars, vibrant costumes, carnival music and giant puppets
British pop superstar Ed Sheeran is set to bring the curtain down on Sunday on four days of momentous nationwide celebrations to honour Queen Elizabeth’s historic Platinum Jubilee.
The multi-award-winning singer-songwriter will perform at the finale of a day-long pageant lauding the 96-year-old monarch’s record seven decades on the throne, as a long weekend of festivities across the UK concludes.
Sheeran is one of numerous “national treasures” poised to perform a “special tribute” to the queen against the backdrop of Buckingham Palace to mark the milestone never previously reached by a British sovereign.
He will perform following the colourful street pageant highlighting Britain’s diversity that paraded through central London on Sunday.
With the ringing of bells at Westminster Abbey, a spectacular military parade featuring 200 horses began the ceremony as they marched down the Mall to Buckingham Palace.
The queen wasn’t taking part in the pageant – though a virtual version of her, drawn from archival video from her 1953 coronation, was shown at the coach’s windows.
Thousands of performers paraded along a three-kilometre (nearly 2-mile) route, telling the story of the queen’s life with dance, vintage cars, vibrant costumes, carnival music and giant puppets.
