Buckingham Palace to help ‘determined’ Queen reach balcony for Trooping The Colour

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The moment the royal family walk out onto the balcony of Buckingham Palace following Trooping the Colour is the most highly-anticipated event of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

And The Palace is doing everything in its power to ensure Her Majesty makes it. Royal expert Jennie Bond believes new lifts have been installed inside the 3,000-year-old palace to aid the Queen with her ascent following her recent mobility issues. “They will have installed everything to get her up there,” Jennie told us. “They put in a lift at Craigowan Lodge at her residence in Balmoral, so I believe that will have been done at the Palace, too.They didn’t use to have one.” Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.The Queen, 96, who has cancelled several recent high-profile engagements owing to mobility issues, is said to be planning to take part in the celebrations, but it is not known which events she will attend. “We’ve got to accept the Palace’s word that she has good days and she has bad days,” said Jennie. “And if unfortunately, one of those days coincides with one of the less good days she simply will not be able to comfortably make the car of helicopter journey into London. "I don’t think she’ll go to The Party at The Palace, because I’ve always thought before, ‘My God, the things they put on’ - does she really want to see Ozzy Osbourne or whoever?