Queen Elizabeth’s beacon pageant master: Who is he and what is his role in the Platinum Jubilee?

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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. Peek’s role is to coordinate the beacon-lighting ceremony in honor of Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne.

Peek, 70, is currently a pageant master, but has taken on a series of other roles in his life including a welder, baker, butcher and builder’s laborer prior to becoming the Queen’s beacon master.

Pageant master of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Beacons Bruno Peek, center, with the Jubilee Crystal Diamond, at the Tower of London, in central London, where the crystal is to be kept until Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.  (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images) Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee took place in 2002 and her Diamond Jubilee ten years later in 2012.