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Trooping the Colour, Horseguards Parade, Central London, June 2013. Trooping the Colour is a ceremonial event performed every year on Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom, by regiments of Household Division, to celebrate the official birthday of the British sovereign. [1] It is also known as the Sovereign's Birthday Parade.
This is a list of the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, from 1890 to the present. The first Trooping the Colour on Horse Guards Parade took place on 4 June 1805. [1] In 1895 two Troopings were performed, on consecutive days, by different battalions of the Scots Guards at Windsor Castle and Horse Guards Parade. [2]
The parade ground is open on the west side, where it faces Horse Guards Road and St James's Park. It is enclosed to the north by the Admiralty Citadel and the Admiralty Extension building, to the east by Admiralty House, William Kent's Horse Guards and the rear of Dover House (home of the Scotland Office), and to the south by Kent's Treasury building (now used by the Cabinet Office), garden ...
2008. What a huge family photo! The crowd on the Buckingham Palace balcony back for the 2008 Trooping the Colour is huge compared to the Royal attendance of the ceremonies in the 2020s so far.
The name, too, dates back to the 1700s, when various military regiments would show off their flags—all different colors (or, spelled in the UK, colours), so you get "trooping" the "colour." This ...
Trooping the Colour takes place on Saturday 17 June and for the first time in 73 years, it will be a King who takes the salute. Held to celebrate the monarch’s birthday each year, the ceremony ...
18 April – Ordnance Survey begins systematic publication of its General Survey of England and Wales ("Old Series") maps to a scale of one inch to the mile (1:63,360) with those for Essex. [4] 4 June – The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London. [1]
Everything to Know About King Charles III’s Trooping the Colour Parade. Read article. The annual parade dates back to the reign of King Charles II, who ruled from 1660 to 1685. However, it didn ...