Jubilee weekend sees Duke and Duchess go to Wales as Anne visits Scotland

THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit Wales during the extended Bank Holiday Jubilee weekend and the Princess Royal will head to Scotland, Buckingham Palace has announced.

William and Kate are among senior royals who will tour the UK as the nation marks the Queen’s 70-year reign with a series of events.

The Earl and Countess of Wessex will visit Northern Ireland, with all the members of the monarchy attending public events marking the Platinum Jubilee.

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are likely to be in the capital attending events over the four-day weekend in June and it is not known which engagements the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will participate in.

Harry and Meghan confirmed on Friday, also their son Archie’s third birthday, that they were “excited and honoured” to attend the commemorations for the monarch’s milestone next month with their eldest child and his sister Lilibet.

During her Diamond Jubilee celebrated in 2012 the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh made an extensive tour of the country over a three-month period.

Details have been released about some of the arrangements for the Platinum Jubilee with a gathering of royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony, after the Trooping The Colour ceremony, limited to just working royals and with the Duke of York and Harry and Meghan omitted from the line-up.

The monarch’s decision to include only royals carrying out official public duties was taken “after careful consideration”, Buckingham Palace said.

The symbolic move is likely to be interpreted as a snub to the Sussexes, who quit royal duties two years ago, and to Andrew, who was cast out of the institution over his civil sexual assault case.

On June 2, Trooping The Colour, the sovereign’s official birthday parade, will start the four days of Jubilee festivities, with 18 members of the royal family set to gather on the famous frontage, with the Queen “looking forward” to the weekend of celebrations.

There will be no ceremonial journey to the service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday, June 3, and the 96-year-old monarch, who is facing mobility issues, will use a different entrance rather than scaling the steep steps.