Royal correspondent, Willie Geist, take it away.

Thank you, Jonathan. You are looking at live pictures right now from London.

Celebrations underway for the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the second celebrating 70 years for her on the throne.

Queen Elizabeth is the longest serving British monarch in history.

The four-day celebration kicking off here.

You're watching Trooping the Color, a military parade in honor of the 96-year-old Queen's official birthday.

In recent years, Her Majesty, the Queen traveled by horse-drawn carriage from Buckingham Palace down the mouth to horse guards parade.

The Queen did not make the journey this year.

Instead, senior members of the royal

family that you saw moments ago, including Prince Charles and Prince Williams, attending in her

absence. The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, couples three children, George, Charlotte,

and Louis have already arrived. Good morning. Welcome to Morning, Joe. It is Thursday, June 2nd,

with us here in New York. We have White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of way too

early, Jonathan Lemire, and MSNBC contributor, Mike Barnacle. And live from London, NBC News

foreign correspondent Megan Fitzgerald, British historian, author and broadcaster,

Susanna Lipscomb.

She's an NBC News royal contributor, MSNBC Royal Commentator, Tim Ewart, also with us, Pulitzer

Prize win in columnist, an associate editor of the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson, who

once served as the Post London Bureau Chief.

A lot to see this morning, a lot of voices to hear from, to put into context,

these seven decades for Queen Elizabeth.

We expect to see her twice over the course of the day today,

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