Trooping The Colour Gallery

The Army celebrate the birthday of their Queen

Pictured are members of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment (HCMR) on the Mall as the Army celebrate the birthday of their Queen.
All the Royal Colonels accompanied Her Majesty on parade with The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, and The Princess Royal riding as part of the parade.
This year, the Colour being trooped in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen is that of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, identified by the shamrock decorating the collars of their scarlet tunics and the distinctive blue plumes of St Patrick in their bearskin caps.
The Field Officer in Brigade Waiting, Lieutenant Colonel of the Irish Guards, will command the Parade from his horse Wellington. Before he marches his men off the square he will wish Her Majesty The happiest of birthdays from the officers and soldiers of the Household Division and The Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery.
As well as the Irish Guards, there will be 242 Irish draught and cavalry horses on parade, and two English shire horses. Other units on parade will be Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards, 7 Company Coldstream Guards, F Company Scots Guards and The Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery. The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment will provide the Sovereigns Escort with the Processional route on The Mall being street lined by the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. Personnel from the 1st Battalion Scots Guards Pipes and Drums, 1st Battalion Irish Guards Drums and Pipes, 1st Battalion Irish Guards Corps of Drums, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards Corps of Drums, and the Bands of The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards and the Welsh Guards, will play a programme of military and Irish themed music as if one

Trooping the Colour, and Inspection by the Prince of Wales

1598962 Trooping the Colour, and Inspection by the Prince of Wales, at the Horse Guards Parade on 3 June (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Trooping the Colour, and Inspection by the Prince of Wales, at the Horse Guards Parade on 3 June. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 10 June 1899.
English Photographer (19th Century)); Look and Learn / Illustrated Papers Collection; English, out of copyright

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RAF Aircraft Flypast Over Buckingham Palace

A Royal Air Force KC-30 Voyager Air Tanker aircraft (centre) is flanked by two Tornado GR4 and two Typhoon FGR4 jets (bottom) during a flypast over Buckingham Palace, London for Her Majesty the Queen's Birthday Parade.
More than a thousand soldiers and horses from the Household Division paraded in front of their Colonel in chief, Her Majestythe Queen, today (15th june 2013), with the immaculate precision, colour and pageantry that marks them as truly World Class.
Later as the last shot of the 41 gun Royal Salute was fired from The Green Park to mark the Queen's official Birthday, the skies roared with an impressive fly past from the RAF featuring 32 aircraft of 13 different types

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