Queen Elizabeth Jubilee 2024 Events. The queen will be 96 when the main jubilee celebrations kick off in june. Queen elizabeth ii became the first british monarch to reach 70 years on the throne this year, and platinum jubilee celebrations are taking place to mark the milestone.
A packed programme of events took place in 2002 to celebrate fifty years of the queen’s reign. Her majesty became the first british monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee, after seven decades of service to the people of the united kingdom, the realms and the commonwealth.