Sunday 5 June 2022 04:37 PM Vintage Jaguar carrying Prue Leith has to be pushed from the Jubilee Pageant ... trends now
Bake Off presenter Prue Leith’s vintage Jaguar broke down and had to be pushed by four stewards before being quietly removed from the Pageant.
The sleek car was part of the ‘Dames in their Jags’ section, but for Dame Prue, 82, who had cut short her holiday to join the procession, it was sadly the end of the road.
It was part of the second act, The Time of Our Lives progressing through seven decades of culture, music and fashion, within the four-section pageant.
The 'Dame' section of the Jubilee pageant was dubbed 'hags in Jags', by Joan Collins, who featured in the section alongside Arlene Phillips and Twiggy, real name Dame Lesley Lawson, as they drove down the road in open-topped vintage cars.
Bake Off presenter Prue Leith’s vintage Jaguar broke down and had to be pushed by four stewards before being quietly removed from the Pageant
Dame Prue Leith featured in the 'Dame' section of the Jubilee pageant, with appearances from Joan Collins, pictured with husband Percy Gibson
Dame Collins gave the section its joke name after being invited to participate alongside six other dames, co-chair Nicholas Coleridge told the Evening Standard.
Also seen in the parade were Dame Floella Benjamin, Dame Darcey Bussell and Dame Zandra Rhodes.
Gary Lineker joked it is a 'career highlight' to be on the same bus as Pudsey Bear during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant.
'A career highlight. Being on a bus ride with Pudsey,' the presenter tweeted.
Holly Willoughby has described the Queen as the 'most incredible, amazing iconic lady' as she represented the 2010s in the Jubilee pageant.
Katherine Jenkins, Chris Eubank, Giles Terera and Cliff Richard ride a bus during the Platinum Pageant on June 5, 2022
People wave from an open top bus during the Platinum Pageant in London, Britain, June 5, 2022
Anthea Turner, Peter Duncan, Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton take part in the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, June 5, 2022
Chris Hoy (right) and members of the Team GB cycling team cycle the Platinum Pageant on June 5, 2022 in London
Speaking to presenter AJ Odudu on the bus, she added that the atmosphere is 'overwhelming' at the event.
Nicole Scherzinger was also among the celebrities on the bus, as well as Rylan.
A cast of thousands of colourful characters and hundreds of iconic vehicles parading through central London for the Jubilee pageant include 1950s motorcycles, decorated double-decker buses from seven decades and a band of belligerent Daleks.
The four extra-terrestrial mutants from the sci-fi television programme Doctor Who will be rolling alongside cultural icons from the 1960s in the decade-by-decade Time of Our Lives section of the spectacle.
Drivers with old cars parade during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant outside Buckingham Palace in London, June 5, 2022
True to their combative on-screen nature, the Daleks threatened other performers and journalists gathered on Horse Guards Parade with 'extermination'.
'Surrender now, you have been exterminated! Do not threaten the Daleks!' one of the villains shouted as it charged towards squealing onlookers.
One of the operators, Simon James, 48, said he did not mind spending many hours in the suit.
'I have a nice comfy seat, so I'm going to get the best seat in the house,' he said.
In his mechanical Dalek voice, the train driver from Birmingham added: 'I am very excited to be taking part in the Platinum Jubilee. The Queen has done this country an amazing service and we are here to pay respect to the sovereign'.
Riders with bicycles and motorcycles parade during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant outside Buckingham Palace, June 5, 2022
Gaynor Cowley, 58, said she was accompanying the Daleks as a minder.
'They have to have someone with them so that they don't run over anything, bump into anything or go over potholes. I help him get in and out of the Dalek too,' she said, adding that they were members of Project Dalek, who build Daleks and give advice about them.
The gravelly parade ground on St James's Park was
