Royal Air Force: Last News

Day two of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations have kicked off as Royals have started arriving for the Service of Thanksgiving. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 70-year reign with the four-day weekend. And while she was in attendance for the Trooping of the Colour, she will be watching the televised Service of Thanksgiving from the comfort of her Windsor Castle home due to some "discomfort" from the day before.

A key part of the plans for King Charles's Coronation tomorrow could be cancelled at the very last minute, due to bad weather.There is a 70% chance of showers at the same time a spectacular flypast by the Red Arrows to celebrate the historic occasion is due to take place, forecasters say. Royal fans who will be in London to celebrate the occasion are advised to bring umbrellas, cagoules and waterproof jackets with dreary weather expected.

Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie were booed by fans as they walked into St Paul's Cathedral for the start of the Platinum Jubilee Thanksgiving service on Friday 3 June. As the Prime Minister, 57, and his other half, 34, got out of their car and walked up the steps, onlookers shared their distaste. Boris had a worried look on his face as he ascended the steps with his wife, who he shares son Wilfred, two, and daughter Romy, five months, with.

Bruce Dickinson – longtime frontman of Iron Maiden and qualified commercial pilot – has detailed his experience with Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots at a spoken-word show over the weekend.Dickinson was onstage at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City on Saturday night (February 19), as part of his ongoing tour, entitled An Evening with Bruce Dickinson. In a segment of the show where he answered questions from fans, a former soldier enquired as to Dickinson’s most memorable flight with British soldiers.The singer, as reported by Blabbermouth, answered the question by recalling a 2008 flight from Afghanistan, where he was bringing RAF pilots home to the UK.“We were the flying the Royal Air Force Regiment, which is RAF boots-on-the-ground soldiers, and they’d been to Afghanistan,” said Dickinson.“They had taken some casualties and they had lost some people, but they were all really cheerful – the best passengers you could ever have in the military.

Only 30 people will be allowed to attend the funeral service of Prince Philip, but there are over 700 members of the military and the armed forces who are involved in the event.