Great British breakdown! Vintage cars carrying Prue Leith has to be pushed from the Jubilee Pageant after it BREAKS DOWN in procession of Dames in Jaguars that includes Joan Collins and Twiggy

• Prue Leith’s vintage Jaguar broke down and had to be pushed by four stewards
• The Bake Off presenter’s sleek car was then quietly removed from the Pageant
• Dame Prue, 82, had cut short her holiday to join today’s jubilee procession

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 filled with vintage cars and motorcycles, floats and performers preparing to set off on the 3km carnival procession on a grey and cool Sunday morning. 

The 1960s part of the parade will also feature a fleet of iconic Minis, with the driver of one saying she was ’emotional’ to be participating.

Sarah Jones will be driving her model, which she bought for £500 in 1974, with a cut-out corgi peeking out the back.

The 74-year-old silversmith from London’s Islington said she crafted a bunch of silver national flowers for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, featuring the daffodil, rose, shamrock and thistle.

Open-top buses were lined up on Horse Guards ready to carry celebrities from each era of the Queen’s reign. Bus preservation enthusiasts Richard Dixon, 63, and Ivan Fisher, 42, who will be a ticket conductor on the 1950s bus and the driver the 2000s bus, respectively, said they were more excited about taking part in the event itself than meeting celebrities.

Original golden coronation carriage with hologram of the Queen is seen during the Platinum Pageant on June 5, 2022

The first section, For Queen and Country with a military parade, featured a hologram of the young Queen smiling and waving at royal fans down The Mall has been beamed onto the Gold State Coach.  

Guardsmen, Gurkhas, Royal Marines and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment in their breastplates and plumed feathers were among the hundreds of servicemen and women who led the way marching along the streets around Buckingham Palace.

Charles took the salute of various military units when they passed the royal box and he stood to acknowledge the servicemen and women as they passed.   

Attendees take pictures of the hologram of the Queen on the Gold State Coach, June 5, 2022

Close to 200 national treasures including Sir David Jason, Harry Redknapp, Sandie Shaw, Felicity Kendal, Joe Wicks and Holly Willoughby will join pop sensation Ed Sheeran in a mass rendition of God Save The Queen outside Buckingham Palace at the end of the pageant.

Some 10,000 people including a cast of 6,000 performers are involved in staging the carnival route from Horse Guards, along Whitehall to Admiralty Arch and down The Mall to Buckingham Palace, echoing Her Majesty’s 1953 coronation procession.

British eccentricity was soon to the fore when the cyclists on a menagerie of bikes rode past Buckingham Palace, including a biker dressed as the character Elliot from the sci-fi Movie ET, complete with the Extra Terrestrial in the cycle’s basket.

The Golden Coach, which has not been seen in public in 20 years, goes down The Mall, June 5, 2022

As the decades flashed by revellers in period 1940s clothes danced the Lambeth Walk and further down The Mall jiving performers represented the 1950s.

Interspersed were iconic vehicles from Morris Minors, rockers on classic motorbikes and Mods on scooters, while the national treasures – celebrities from across the years including Katherine Jenkins, Bonnie Langford, Alan Titchmarsh, Basil Brush, Kate Garraway and RuPaul’s Drag Race stars Baga Chipz and Blu Hydrangea, and fashion royalty Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell – travelled on buses.

Sir Cliff Richard sang from the 1950s bus, former boxer Chris Eubank posed from the open top-deck of another, and TV presenter Johnny Ball joked on the BBC about the experience on the 1970s bus: ‘It’s all right, but I’m worried I haven’t paid my fare’.

A peloton of 300 cyclists travelled down The Mall led by Sir Chris Hoy and cycling golden couple Dame Laura and Sir Jason Kenny. 

Royals and politicians gathered outside Buckingham Palace to watch today’s star-studded £15million Platinum Jubilee Pageant.

Original golden coronation carriage with hologram of the Queen is seen during the Platinum Pageant on June 5, 2022

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, their children George, Charlotte and Louis, Princess Anne, and Zara and Mike Tindall are all seated in the royal box alongside Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie, Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan to watch the two-mile procession through central London.

The Queen was missing from the royal box but revellers are still hoping she will make a balcony appearance for the carnival’s finale. 

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who put family tensions to one side to visit the UK together for the first time since they acrimoniously quit royal duties, were also absent for a second day running from the festivities.

It is not known if the 96-year-old monarch will make appear on the Buckingham Palace balcony, after she pulled out of two Jubilee events amid concerns for her health. 

However, Charles, Camilla, William and Kate, and other members of the royal family are all expected to take to the world-famous balcony at the end of the 2½-hour procession.

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