Buckingham Palace will be celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. The main programme will take place from Saturday 2 June to Tuesday 5 June with celebratory activities throughout the United Kingdom and across the Commonwealth.

There will be a Service of Thanksgiving and a Carriage Procession, a concert broadcast by the BBC and a Big Lunch, so get involved! Further details of these events and of other national and regional Diamond Jubilee events will be announced in due course, as a proportion of them are taking place in SW1 we will be providing updates and dates of specific events when they become available. See individual event listings below for more.