I was a Queen Elizabeth impersonator for 50 years — and people laughed at me

Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee, which begins on June 2 and runs through the weekend, concluding on June 5.There will be days full of celebration and one man is helping to kick off the festivities. Bruno Peek is the Queen’s beacon pageant master who participated in the monarch’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees.

A post shared by Joan Collins (@joancollinsdbe)Joan Collins, 89, declared today Way Back Wednesday as she posted a photo of herself enjoying the Silver Jubilee party back in 1977.Tagging Jane Seymour, Samantha Eggar and Juliet Mills, she shared a snap of the four of them sitting beside each other clutching Union Jack flags for the special moment.Joan's post comes just hours before the street parties begin for the Queen's Platinum celebrations.The leggy snap, featuring a jubilant Joan grinning for the camera, was a hit with her fans.Almost 2,000 of her 277,000 followers spotted it within a few hours and invited nostalgic conversation as they reminisced on the Silver Jubilee."Oh god wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just hold time for us all and have everyone we love still here and hold time in great chapters of life," @colinsmithvisual wrote."Here we are 45 years later and about to celebrate this weekend for her Majesty's 70th year - amazing really.".So excited to see you in the big parade Dames in Jags.

A four day weekend will soon be upon us, courtesy of the Queen celebrating her Platinum Jubilee. The spring bank holiday, which usually falls on the last Monday in May, has been moved to Thursday 2 June instead.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s daughter Lilibet is set to meet her namesake! This week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will make their first return to the U.K. – with their two children, Archie, 3, and 11-month-old Lilibet – in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s daughter Lilibet is set to meet her namesake! This week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will make their first return to the U.K. — with their two children, Archie, 3, and 11-month-old Lilibet -- in honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.

So much for all that brotherly love. Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton are reportedly planning to miss their niece’s big first birthday!

Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebration. A new music video was cut using footage from the performance video shot by Julien Temple at the marquee in May 1977 and clips of the Thames riverboat party on the Silver Jubilee day in June that same year. It also features exclusive footage of some of the earliest, most important and influential female fans of the band including Vivienne, Jordan, Debbie and Tracey, Catwoman and Helen of Troy.The song, with the same title as the British national anthem, was originally released in 1977 during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.

Queen Elizabeth II became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee earlier this year after marking 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, Realms and the Commonwealth.  In honor of the milestone anniversary, thousands of street parties are scheduled to coincide with days of royal celebrations honor the queen’s historic reign, including two bank holidays planned on Thursday and Friday for a four-day, holiday weekend.  Buckingham Palace shared that the queen’s attendance at events throughout the Platinum Jubilee weekend will likely only be confirmed on "the day itself," and Prince William and wife Kate Middleton were tapped to lead the Jubilee celebrations as the most senior members of the royal family.  The Royal Family’s official social media accounts have teased access to Jubilee preparations, and will share behind-the-scenes looks at what’s to come for the big weekend in royal history. Queen Elizabeth II will begin Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Thursday with Trooping the Colour.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have renewed lease at Frogmore Cottage where they will stay this week for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, a Royal source tells ET.The source says that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have quietly renewed their lease at Frogmore Cottage, where they briefly lived after getting married.Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank had been using the premises while Harry and Meghan live in California, but have now left the property, according to the source. The Sussexes will stay at their home when they return for Platinum Jubilee celebrations this week.The move will renew speculation on whether Harry and Meghan intend to spend more time in the UK as the Queen gets older.

Queen’s upcoming events to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee.The legendary actress said the Royal Family will likely be “thrilled” but also “terribly anxious” over Her Majesty’s wellbeing with such a busy schedule.She explained that there are concerns the monarch may get “massively overtired” but she will be “pragmatic” about what she can do.Joanna said: “I’m sure all the royals will be thrilled, but I also think they’ll be terribly anxious that the Queen will get massively overtired.“I think she’s pragmatic, though.She’ll know how much she can do,” the Absolutely Fabulous star added to Radio Times.Her comments come after Her Majesty has faced health issues in recent months including the impact on her mobility.Joanna will have an important role in the Jubilee celebrations, presenting the Platinum Jubilee Pageant and the Jubilee Big Lunch.She will share her hosting duties with veteran broadcasters, Kay Burley and Alastair Bruce.Joanna recently spoke out about her happiness to be involved in the historic event.She said: "The Queen made a promise when she was terribly young, she said her whole life would be in service of us, her people and she would never falter and never waver from it and she never has."I can't think of anybody who's ever made a promise like that in public and kept to it.So I'm a great fan of the Queen, I just think she's remarkable."She's a pretty special person and I think we would all love to be loved by the Queen and I think she loves us all."I think she looks at her people, not only the people here but the people of the Commonwealth and anybody who looks up to her, I think she treats them all with love, so I love her for that."Joanna also reflected on the importance of the celebrations following the

Platinum Jubilee, celebrating her 70 years on the throne.The stones feature eight portraits, including a photo from the queen’s coronation in 1953, a picture of her riding a horse in the 1960s, an appearance at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in 2017 and more. “We’ve brought two British icons together to mark the #PlatinumJubilee! We’ve projected eight portraits of Queen Elizabeth II onto Stonehenge,” said the English Heritage organization, which cares for the historic landmark, in a statement on Twitter.

the Queen was showing the world how it was done. A sovereign who has often found herself the only woman in rooms full of men and whose reign has seen trends for flares, boob tubes and miniskirts come and go several times over, one of Elizabeth II’s great accomplishments is, surely, her iconic style.Her opinions are rarely heard, but her image can be recognised from a mile off, becoming synonymous with everything from colour-blocking to silk headscarves and frame handbags.

She is the longest-reigning, best-loved, monarch in British history, but the Queen was not destined to be on the throne. And far from being born in the gilded surroundings of a grand palace, Elizabeth II’s birth took place in a London townhouse, on what was a damp and windy spring night.

Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, carried out an important royal duty on Saturday, ahead of the Trooping the Colour parade that will take place on Thursday 2 June, as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The annual event has marked the official birthday of the British Sovereign for over 260 years, and it is much-loved event in the British calendar, with royals gathering on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch the Trooping the Colour RAF flypast each year.

Princes William, 39, and Harry, 37, are set for a "stressful" reunion at Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebration.According to royal author Angela Levin, the monumental occasion, which sees the Queen celebrate 70 years on the British throne, will be a very "frosty" encounter.Angela told Daily Mail: "I think the St Paul's service is going to be very stressful for the royals, especially for William and Catherine, who feel they have badly let down the Royal Family."It will be just as frosty as the Commonwealth Service in 2020. The brothers will look serious and I suspect Meghan's Hollywood smile will be fixed." The expert says the situation has been made worse by the news Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, 40, maybe bringing a Netflix film crew along with them as part of the docuseries they are creating for the streaming giant.She explained: "Netflix could insist on them being there – and they are now probably not in a position to say no because they might get dropped completely."Queen Elizabeth, 96, celebrates her Platinum Jubilee with a number of events and week-long activities planned in her honour.It is expected the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will return to the UK for these events along with their children Archie, three, and Lilibet, 11 months.

Queen Elizabeth is being honored in a big way.

Queen Elizabeth II is enjoying the calm before the storm, albeit a celebratory storm. A royal source tells ET that Her Majesty traveled to Balmoral estate in Scotland on Thursday «for a short break» before the Jubilee celebrations begin.The royal source added that Elizabeth, 96, «often travels there at this time of year and stays for a week.» With so much planned for the four-day celebration, it seems the queen is pacing herself ahead of the festivities planned.In honor of the queen's 70 years of service, four days of events have been planned for June, beginning on June 2 with a birthday parade and the royal family's traditional balcony appearance at Buckingham Palace during the annual Trooping the Colour event.According to a press release, the Trooping the Colour will feature the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards and more than 1200 officers and soldiers as well as hundreds of Army musicians and about 240 horses.

It's no secret that Queen Elizabeth enjoys the finer things in life, from designer clothes to expensive jewellery, so it comes as no surprise that her food choices are also lavish. The 96 year old, who recently attended the Chelsea Flower Show in a vibrant pink outfit, can request any dish that takes her fancy thanks to her trusty team of staff, who cook her meals each day at Buckingham Palace.

Royal memorabilia collection which is worth over £30,000. Royal superfan Tajinder Nahar, 65, has taken 30 years to create his collection, which includes porcelain plates and mugs, books and board games, pictures and tea trays.And amazingly he started it out of pure boredom.Speaking to the Mirror, he said: "I was 35 and unemployed."I was at home with nothing to do when my then-wife said, ‘Why not start a collection?’“At first, as she sent me off to the charity shop, I was reluctant. But when I saw two mugs with Queen Elizabeth’s face on them, I just knew.

As the United Kingdom and the world gear up for Queen Elizabeth’s big Platinum Jubilee celebrations, one company is honoring the 96-year-old monarch in a small, but grand, way.Babbacombe Model Village in Devon, England, unveiled a tiny model of HRH and her Jubilee Trooping the Colour parade ahead of the ceremony, which is set for June 2.The intricately detailed figurines feature small-scale horse guards, the Yeomen Warders (the sentries for the Tower of London) and the sovereign herself.In photos, designer Wayne Stott is seen putting the final touches on the queen, who’s seated in a red carriage and escorted by her royal guards on horseback, marching in the parade with their unmistakable black bearskin helmets.The minuscule monarch is sized to be barely larger than one’s thumb, however, it’s chock-full of details resembling the real queen.Eighteen of her Majesty’s Yeomen Warders guards have been spread throughout the model village for the exhibit, which is open for the Jubilee celebrations now through June 19.“Join us to celebrate the marking of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee and enjoy our Miniature Beefeater Hunt,” the model village wrote on Instagram. “Try and find all 18 miniature Beefeaters hidden in and around the gardens and all successful young explorers will receive their very own Union Jack flag to take home.”The Jubilee will be held from June 2 to June 5 and celebrates the British ruler’s astonishing 70 years on the throne.

Platinum Jubilee, a slew of celebrations to honor her seven-decade reign, as well as the Windsors who came before her, held from June 2 to June 5.Trooping the Colour refers to a military parade tied to the anniversary of the British monarchy, which enters its 260th year with the upcoming festivities. Traditionally, the queen would attend the parade in Whitehall, either on horseback or, in later years, by carriage, to be greeted by a royal salute as she carries out a symbolic inspection of the troops.Instead, she’ll receive her salute by proxy — via her son and heir Prince Charles, 73, daughter Princess Anne, 71, and grandson Prince William, 39.