Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee 2022: Queen says she is 'deeply touched' by jubilee celebration

Britain’s royal family, led by Queen Elizabeth II, gathered on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch a traditional military flypast at the end of Trooping the Color.

Thanks in part to a weather-cooperating, beautiful sunny day in London, aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force were able to fly directly down the length of the Mall and over the palace.

The queen, wearing sunglasses, watched the flypast with other members of the royal family, including Prince William and Kate’s children, Prince Louis, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, who were seen talking with the queen.

Down below the balcony, outside the palace gates, thousands of members of the public gathered to see the queen and watch the flypast, which is so fierce and low that onlookers say they can feel the ground rumble.

Queen Elizabeth II is holding court on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, where the royal family gathers to watch the military flypast at the end of Trooping the Color.

This year, the queen decided only royal family members who are “undertaking official public duties” on her behalf would appear on the balcony.

Those family members include:

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, and their children, George, Charlotte and Louis.
Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and their children, Louise and James.
Princess Anne and Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.
Prince Richard and Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester.
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.
Princess Alexandra.

Noticeably absent from the balcony this year because they are no longer senior working royals are the queen’s son, Prince Andrew, and her grandson, Prince Harry, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

The woman of the hour, Queen Elizabeth II, made her first appearance of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations during Trooping the Color.

The queen, holding onto a cane, arrived on the balcony of Buckingham Palace alongside her cousin, the Duke of Kent.

The queen wore a blue coat and hat designed by Angela Kelly, her personal stylist of more than 20 years. The outfit is the same one the queen wore for her official jubilee portraited, released Wednesday.

For the first time in her 70-year reign, Elizabeth did not take part in the parade and instead took a salute from the cavalry on the balcony.

She will soon be joined on the balcony by other royal family members to watch the traditional military fly-past.

The queen took part in her first Trooping the Color parade as Princess Elizabeth in 1947.

The Duchess of Cambridge looks like she took a page out of the style book of her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana.

Kate chose a white suit and wide-brimmed black and white hat for her look at Trooping the Color.

More than three decades ago, in 1991, Diana also wore a white suit and wide-brimmed black and white hat to a ceremony celebrating the safe return of U.K. soldiers from the Gulf War.