To celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee, Ed Sheeran and ‘national treasures’ will perform

At the culmination of four days of events in June to honour Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne, singer Ed Sheeran and more than 100 “national treasures” will participate in a “People’s pageant” with 10,000 other performers.

In February, Elizabeth, 96, became the first queen in British history to rule for seven decades, and there will be celebrations throughout two public holidays and a weekend in early June to mark the occasion.

A Thanksgiving Service, a live performance outside Buckingham Palace, and a military parade will be among the events planned around the country.

On June 5, the Platinum Jubilee Pageant will take place, with military bands, singers, dancers, and well-known individuals from sport, cinema, theatre, and music tracing a 3-kilometer (1.9-mile) path through central London, identical to that walked by the queen on her coronation day in 1953.

The Pageant Master, Adrian Evans, remarked, “We’re working hard to make her Platinum Jubilee festivities relevant to our times, and the most stunning of them all.”

The event, which will be aired live and seeks to pay respect to major events throughout the queen’s reign, is expected to draw one billion people from across the world.

The pageant will include seven open-top buses, each reflecting a different decade and featuring notable personalities on board, as well as entertainers and artists from around the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, and a fleet of antique automobiles, including several seen in James Bond films.

Crowds will assemble along the Mall, the wide thoroughfare leading to Buckingham Palace, where Ed Sheeran will be joined by “national treasures” – figures from British culture – for the big finale.

The queen’s participation is yet to be confirmed, since she has been forced to postpone a number of engagements in recent months owing to mobility issues.

“We’re in discussions with the royal household about including all members of the royal family,” Rosanna Machado, the pageant’s chief executive, said. The pageant will cost almost 15 million pounds ($19.1 million) to perform, with funding provided by large corporations and people.