Queen Elizabeth is hosting her very own Great British Bake Off, inviting UK residents to come up with a special dessert in honor of her Platinum Jubilee.
On February 6th, the royal will officially become the first British monarch to celebrate 70 years on the throne, and to mark the occasion the palace will be throwing a number of anniversary events and initiatives all year long leading up to a bank holiday weekend from June 2 to 5. The four-day celebration will include a number of public events, community activities, and national moments of reflection on the Queen’s seven decades of service to the British public. Buckingham Palace also announced that they will be hosting a Platinum Pudding competition to come up with a new dessert named after the royal.
Starting today, the Big Jubilee Lunch and Fortnum & Mason will accept submissions from any UK resident over the age of 8 to come up with the perfect Platinum Pudding recipe. Five finalists will then be chosen to create their special pudding creation for a panel of experts that includes Great British Bake Off judge Dame Mary Berry, MasterChef: The Professionals judge Monica Galetti, and Buckingham Palace's head chef Mark Flanagan. The recipe that wins the nationwide competition will be made available to the public and at the Big Jubilee Lunches throughout the Jubilee weekend.
And that's not the only special event planned to mark this historical occasion. “It is set to be the nation’s biggest celebratory event on the nation’s grandest street for a long, long time,” co-chair Nicholas Coleridge, who is orchestrating the event along with Sir Michael Lockett, told Vanity Fair. Lockett added, “Never has the ambition for an event like this been higher. Because we are marking an occasion the like of which our nation has never seen before. A platinum jubilee. Seventy whole years of service. It is a remarkable achievement and the Queen continues to have a remarkable reign.”
Over the course of 2022, celebrations will be held throughout the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and around the world to celebrate the monarch. Queen Elizabeth and various family members will also travel around the country to participate in various events marking this special anniversary. To kick off the royal festivities, 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses, and 400 musicians will gather for the traditional Trooping the Colour parade. That will be followed by the lighting of the Platinum Jubilee beacons throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, UK overseas territories, and, for the first time ever, in the capital cities of Commonwealth countries. On Friday, there will be a Service of Thanksgiving for the Queen’s reign held at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and on Saturday the monarch and royal family will attend Derby at Epsom Downs. That night, the BBC will also stage a special live concert from Buckingham Palace featuring some of the world’s biggest entertainers. And the long weekend will conclude with The Platinum Jubilee Pageant which will feature over 5,000 people from across the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and “combine street arts, theatre, music, circus, carnival and costume and celebrate the service of Her Majesty’s reign, as well as honoring the collective service of people and communities across the country.”
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