MEMBERS of the public wearing royal family face masks entertain themselves while waiting for the start of a pop music concert at Buckingham Palace, seen in center background, to help celebrate Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II’s 60-year reign during Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London today. The gala concert kicks off at Buckingham Palace this evening with Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Tom Jones heading the line-up, along with younger artists. Afterward, more than 4,200 beacons are to be set alight in Britain and abroad to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. One beacon is to be lit in Kenya at the Treetops Hotel, where Elizabeth was informed of her father’s death in 1952, making her the queen.

MEMBERS of the public wearing royal family face masks entertain themselves while waiting for the start of a pop music concert at Buckingham Palace, seen in center background, to help celebrate Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II’s 60-year reign during Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London today. The gala concert kicks off at Buckingham Palace this evening with Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Tom Jones heading the line-up, along with younger artists. Afterward, more than 4,200 beacons are to be set alight in Britain and abroad to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. One beacon is to be lit in Kenya at the Treetops Hotel, where Elizabeth was informed of her father’s death in 1952, making her the queen.

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