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Trooping The Colour

BBC One
on BBC One London

Her Majesty The Queen takes the salute on Horse Guards Parade, London, to mark the occasion of her official birthday.
Her Majesty is accompanied by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Colonel, Grenadier Guards, HRH The Prince of Wales, Colonel, Welsh Guards, and HRH The Duke of Kent, Colonel, Scots Guards
The parade is the tribute by the Household Division to their Sovereign and Colonel-in-Chief, and is the most complex and spectacular military event of the year. The Queen's Colour of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards is being trooped. The parade, by tradition, is in five parts:
The Inspection of the Line
The six Guards and Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry are inspected by The Queen.
The Troop by the Massed Bands, Corps of Drums and Pipes and Drums of the Household Division.
Trooping The Colour through the ranks.
The March Past by the Guards Division in slow and quick time.
The Rank Past by the Household Cavalry at the walk and at the trot.

(Highlights on BBC2 at 6.0 pm)
(Feature p19)

Contributors

Commentator:
Tom Fleming
Commentator:
Lt.-Col. David Webb-Carter, MC
TV Outside Broadcast Producer:
Ian Smith
Musicians:
Massed Mounted Bands of the Household Cavalry and the Massed Bands of the Guards Division
Source: Radio Times

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