Duke of Cambridge to attend MK50 celebration event
The Duke of Cambridge is to be the special attendee of a celebratory MK50 event in Campbell Park later this month.
His Royal Highness Prince William will attend an event on September 26th. The Prince will meet community leaders before joining a ceremony at the Milton Keynes Rose in Campbell Park to commemorate Milton Keynes’ fiftieth anniversary, at which The Duke will make a short speech.
He will then unveil a pillar to celebrate the city’s founders in the early afternoon, as part of the Milton Keynes Rose. The Rose features a calendar of days important to local people represented by 105 pillars arranged in the geometric design of a flower.
The Duke will also attend a festival zone in the park showcasing the city’s innovations, diverse communities, cultural aspirations and green heritage.
Local people are welcome in Campbell Park on a first come, first serve basis, and around 1,200 public viewing spaces will be available at the Milton Keynes Rose including a dedicated area for wheelchair users, which will also on a first come, first serve basis.
The Milton Keynes Rose viewing area opens at 8am and will be wristband controlled. Security searches will be in place, while wristbands will be available from 7am at the bridge entrance closest to the centre:mk.
A second public area slightly further from the Milton Keynes Rose will have capacity for an additional 2,000 people, which will not be wristband controlled. There will be no public parking in Campbell Park on the day. Please visit www.milton-keynes.gov.uk or www.theparkstrust.co.uk for a list of security restricted items and for more information.
The Mayor of Milton Keynes David Hopkins and Milton Keynes Council Chief Executive Carole Mills will greet The Duke on his arrival at the festival zone.
Mayor David Hopkins said, “We’re incredibly proud of the progress made by Milton Keynes in its first fifty years and we’re delighted His Royal Highness will get to see some of our achievements first hand, and meet Milton Keynes people, during our special year.
“A city that started as the dream of politicians and planners in the late 1960s is now the most successful part of the new towns movement and a cultural artefact in its own right. Milton Keynes’ founders used their ambition, creativity, dedication and community spirit to shape and animate our ‘Amazing MK’, and we’re honoured that The Duke will unveil the newly dedicated Founders’ Pillar.”