Trooping the Colour 2025
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Members of the Royal Family came together to mark The King’s official birthday with the annual Trooping the Colour Parade, showcasing the best of military pageantry and celebrating the Monarch’s links to the Armed Forces.
This year, members of The Royal Family taking part in the parade wore black armbands as a mark of respect following the Air India incident in Ahmedabad this week. A minute's silence was also held.
As The Sovereign wears the uniform of whichever Regiment’s Colour is being trooped, The King, Colonel in Chief of the Household Division, wore the Uniform of the Coldstream Guards. In addition, and at the request of His Majesty, members of the Royal Family taking part in the parade wore black armbands as a mark of respect following the Air India incident in Ahmedabad this week.
Departing from Buckingham Palace in the Ascot Landau carriage, The King and Queen led the procession to Horse Guards Parade, followed by The Princess of Wales, who travelled with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis in the second Ascot Landau.
The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Edinburgh and The Princess Royal attended the parade on horseback, riding Darby, Sir John and Noble respectively, and wearing the uniforms of the Regiments in which they are Royal Colonels: the Welsh Guards, the Scots Guards and the Blues and Royals.
The Duchess of Edinburgh, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence and The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester travelled in the Barouche carriages.
The Royal Procession was accompanied by the Sovereign’s Escort of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment and the sounds of the Band of the Household Cavalry, led by two shire drum horses bearing solid silver kettle drums.
Senior officers taking part in Trooping also wore black arm bands as a mark of respect for the aviation victims, as did the coachmen and women from the Royal Mews, driving carriages carrying members of the royal family or riding on a coach’s lead horse as a postilion.
In Horse Guards Parade, a minute’s silence was held after the King inspected the guardsmen on the parade ground. It was signalled by a bugler sounding the Last Post and ended with the Reveille.
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