THE 2018 Commonwealth Games takes place from April four-15 with 70 nations and territories participating.
The journey will be the first official Royal go to to the Gold Coast in additional than 50 years.
However who is definitely going from the Royal Household and will the Queen be there to chop the ribbon at the opening ceremony?
Right here is the full lowdown on what to anticipate when this colossal occasion will get underway on Wednesday.
No. The Queen, ninety one, not undertakes lengthy-haul abroad journey. Her final journey to Australia, in 2011, was assumed at the time to be her final.
However the Commonwealth Games will start with what occasion CEO David Grevemberg describes as "a secret message in a bottle" from a really particular patron.
Grevemberg will be trying to "uphold Her Majesty's imaginative and prescient and ardour for the Commonwealth."
And proceedings will kick off with speech by The Queen that will be faraway from a baton that has toured the predominantly former British Empire nations that make up the Commonwealth.
It will be learn out by her son, Prince Charles.
The Queen stays patron of the Federation however she has handed on lots of the duties to her household.
The Queen's third son, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, is vice-patron.
Her husband, Prince Philip, has additionally performed an necessary position over the years however he, in fact, retired from public duties final summer time.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales will open the Games and learn out The Queen's customary message, calling on athletes to return collectively in the spirit of pleasant competitors.
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The Prince of Wales opened the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi on The Queen's behalf.
This will be the seventh time His Royal Highness has attended the Commonwealth Games.
Moreover, HRH The Earl of Wessex will attend the Games in his capability as Vice Patron of the Commonwealth Games Federation.
