The Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II is being celebrated in 2022 in the Commonwealth of Nations to mark the 70th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne on 6th February 1952. In the United Kingdom, the usual Spring Bank Holiday was moved to create a four-day Jubilee bank holiday weekend from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June. This is the first time that any British monarch has celebrated a platinum jubilee. Tributes and messages of congratulations came from leaders all over the world, including US President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand and UAE President Sheikh Khalifa.​​​​​​​

1st June 2022

To mark the Jubilee, members of the Royal Family undertook a series of royal tours of Commonwealth countries. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited several Caribbean nations in March, followed in April by the Earl and Countess of Wessex. The Princess Royal, accompanied by her husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, toured Australia and Papua New Guinea in April. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited Canada.

Marking the Jubilee: United Kingdom

The Queen's Green Canopy campaign was launched in May 2021. The campaign invited people from the UK to plant a tree, both to commemorate the Jubilee and to make the local environment greener. As part of the campaign, a 21-metre (70-foot) sculpture called the "Tree of Trees" has been erected outside Buckingham Palace during the June celebrations. The sculpture contains 350 native British trees in the form of one giant tree.
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The Platinum Pudding competition was launched on 10th January 2022 by The Big Jubilee Lunch and Fortnum & Mason throughout the UK to find a pudding to celebrate the Jubilee. The winning recipe, by Jemma Melvin from Southport, is a lemon Swiss roll and Amaretti trifle.

As part of the Platinum Jubilee Civic Honours, the Queen granted eight towns city status: Bangor in Northern Ireland; Colchester, Doncaster and Milton Keynes in England; Dunfermline in Scotland; Wrexham in Wales; Douglas in the Isle of Man; and Stanley in the Falkland Islands. The city of Southampton won the lord mayor title.
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The Queen's birthday parade, also known as Trooping the Colour, is to be held on Thursday 2nd June. Over 1400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians are expected to come together in the traditional parade to mark the Queen's official birthday. The event will close with the Queen and Royal Family observing a Royal Air Force flypast from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

The emblem for the Platinum Jubilee was announced in August 2021, following a competition which was judged by industry experts. The winning design was created by 19-year-old graphic design student Edward Roberts from Nottinghamshire.
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The Queen in her
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"As I look ahead with a sense of hope and optimism to the year of my Platinum Jubilee, I am reminded of how much we can be thankful for. These last seven decades have seen extraordinary progress socially, technologically and culturally that have benefitted us all; and I am confident that the future will offer similar opportunities to us and especially to the younger generations in the United Kingdom and throughout the Commonwealth."

"It is a pageant of chivalry and an old-fashioned way of doing things, I think, but it's quite interesting to have it done again. I hope my Platinum Jubilee will be an opportunity for people everywhere to enjoy a sense of togetherness. A chance to give thanks for the enormous changes of the last 70 years and also to look ahead with confidence. One of the joys of living a long life is watching your children and then grandchildren. We can't be certain what lies ahead for them. but we should know enough to put them on the right path."

"My Jubilee affords me a time to reflect on the goodwill shown to me by people of all nationalities, faiths and ages in this country and around the world over these years".