File photo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to have lunch with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace during his three-day visit to the UK next month.
PM Modi lands in London on November 12, the day after Diwali, and will address a joint session of the British Parliament that day. He will meet and hold talks with Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street soon after he arrives in the British capital.
Mr Cameron will be by PM Modi's side through most of his engagements during the visit, his first to the UK since he took office last year. PM Modi is expected to stay overnight at the British PM's country residence Chequers.
Lunch with the Queen is likely to be scheduled for Friday the 13th.
In the evening, Pm Modi will address an estimated 60,000 people at an event at London's Wembley Stadium organised by the Indian community in Britain.
On Saturday, November 14, Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate the Ambedkar House, a three-storey house in London that Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution, lived in the early 1920s.
PM Modi said over the weekend that he is "excited about my visit to Britain" because he will "formally inaugurate the house where Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar lived, which recently became the Indian government's property and a place of inspiration for 125 crore Indians".
The Maharshtra government has bought the house for 3.1 million pounds (around Rs. 30 crore).
The PM leaves London on Saturday and flies to Turkey to attend a G-20 Summit.
The Indian community in the UK is prepping to give the PM what the organisers have called an "Olympic style" reception at the Wembley, Europe's second largest stadium. Registration closed last night and the organisers have reported an unprecedented response.
"People from all over the UK have applied for a seat, the youngest being two years old and the oldest 92," said a spokesperson, reports PTI
Two days after Diwali, London has also been promised "fireworks like never before".