Details of Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee released State trumpeters of the Household Cavalry Regiment during a media facility at Welling...

Details of Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee released

State trumpeters of the Household Cavalry Regiment during a media facility at Wellington Barracks in London, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Details of the military personnel and uniforms to be used at the Diamond Jubilee in June were announced. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

LONDON — Glittering carriages. Gun salutes. Naval escorts.

Buckingham Palace and the military have released details on the pomp and pageantry on the central weekend celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, and it features much of what makes Britain so famous for state occasions.

The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery will perform a 60-gun salute, and the navy will dispatch several vessels, including one featuring a band of Royal Marines.

Prince William and the former Kate Middleton, now the Duchess of Cambridge, will join the monarch for a glittering carriage procession — the first such ride since their marriage last year.

The events described Thursday will be the high point of the jubilee weekend on June 2-5, marking the queen's 60 year reign.

(Agencies)