Royal wedding street parties are well underway in Britain today, with thousands of schools hosting celebrations.
Proud parents posted pictures on social media of their children going off to school this morning dressed in patriotic outfits and royal family masks as teachers put on parties ahead of the big day tomorrow.
Local authorities across the country have received hundreds of party applications, which allow roads to be shut and streets to be decked out with bunting, to help people celebrate the Windsor Castle wedding.
Hotspots include Richmond in South West London, which is hosting 93 parties over the wedding weekend – although Scots appear less enthused occasion, with just one reported street party taking place, in Elgin, Moray.
Offices around the country and overseas are also holding parties of their own with bunting hanging from the ceiling and patriotic cakes for staff, while some schools are even holding a ‘Meghan spoon race’ for pupils.
England and Wales have a proud history of street parties, which started as ‘peace teas’ after the First World War as a treat for children in days of hardship, and have evolved into a tradition on national days of celebration.
But there are concerns that thousands of revellers celebrating the wedding at parties around London tomorrow face having their plans ruined by travel chaos as large parts of the Underground network are shut down.
Children wave flags on the Long Walk today, one day before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding at Windsor Castle
One mother from Leeds posted this picture of her son going to a royal wedding party at school in a very patriotic outfit
Luci Drewery posted a picture of her sons dressed up for a party at a school in Hull (left), while Lucy Lawson from the Yorkshire Dales said her children were ‘two scummy munchkins’ in their outfits for a royal wedding celebration (right)
A group of royal fans celebrated tomorrow’s wedding at a street party in Blackburn on BBC Radio Lancashire this morning
Angela Rooke, 56, is very excited for the royal wedding, paying £30 each for cardboard cutouts of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Queen, who are all smiling from her home in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire
Members of the Omagh Royal Air Force cadets enjoyed a royal wedding party at their St Lucia Barracks in Northern Ireland
Royal wedding fever hit the offices of BBC Radio Lancashire today ahead of a breakfast street party this morning
Sophie Navarrete said her office is ‘so excited’ for the royal wedding that they are celebrating early with cake and tea
Staff at a law firm in Singapore put on what was described as a ‘very British tea party’ in their offices today
A street party is even being held for dogs on a residential street in Windsor, by American pet food company Freshpet
Battersea staff and dogs are holding a street party at the charity’s Old Windsor centre to celebrate to the royal wedding