Shining light on celebrations for HRH’s Platinum Jubilee events

FuRTHeR to the announcement from Buckingham Palace on June 2, regarding the Platinum Jubilee Weekend of June 2-5 2022, which the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Beacons is part of, I have pleasure in confirming the Guide To Taking Part in this event is available to view and download.

You can find it at www.queensjubileebeacons.com and it will be updated on this site at the end of each month as more and more communities, individuals and organisations and so on, join the event over the forthcoming months.

The beacon lighting and associated activities will take place throughout the united Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, uK overseas Territories and, for the first time, in each of the capital cities of all the Commonwealth countries on June 2, 2022.

Pages 11, 12, 13 and 14 show the various types of beacons to be used for this historic occasion that can be lit in farmers’ fields, on country estates, on the top of high hills, around our shorelines on cliff tops and on beaches, with gas-fuelled beacons on church towers and castle battlements and permanent beacon braziers made and lit by craftsmen and women in the centre of town and village greens, providing a lasting reminder of this historic moment in the history of The Queen’s reign.

Those considering purchasing one of the gas-fuelled Beacons found could consider organising a local raffle with the winner having the honour of lighting the beacon on the night, with the funds raised being donated to a local charity or used to cover the cost of the beacon and the bottle of gas required to fuel it.

Those wanting to take part are being asked to go to page 10 and provide us with the information requested in Step 1, enabling us to include them in the monthly guide updates over the forthcoming months, along with sending them further information in due course.

Many of those receiving this communication will already have permanent beacons in place, so please light them for this occasion but remember to still register your involvement as soon as possible please. From the guide, you will see that we are involving town criers undertaking the Proclamation at 1pm announcing the lighting of the beacons that evening and pipers playing Diu Regnare at 9.09pm, before the beacons are lit at 9.15pm.

With this in mind, please consider sourcing a local piper to play this tune at your beacon location before lighting it at 9.15pm. If this is the case, please register your piper in a similar way to your beacon by no later than end of May 2022.

This could well be the last chain of beacons lit during The Queen’s reign, so we want to make it the largest and most dramatic the world has ever seen.

We do hope therefore, that you will help us achieve this by taking part in lighting a beacon at 9.15pm on June 2, 2022.

Bruno Peek, Pageantmaster, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Beacons