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Queen Elizabeth II riding Burmese during Trooping the Colour for the last time in 1986. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has, between 1969 and 2023, presented seven police service horses from the Musical Ride unit to two of Canada's monarchs: six horses to Queen Elizabeth II and one to King Charles III.
The Queen's colour was trooped there for the first time on the Queen's Birthday Parade in 1956, a practice which has continued since then. Colours were first presented to the Corps of Staff Cadets by King George VI when, as Duke of York, he visited Australia in 1927. These colours are now lodged in the college's Patterson Hall.
Although named after Winston Churchill, the letter "W" was used to name all police horses in 1944. [2] As a police horse, Winston often was present on duty at public events such as the Changing of the Guard before he was selected for Royal duties. In 1947, Winston carried King George VI during the first Trooping of the Colour to take place ...
King Charles took center stage at his first Trooping the Colour parade on Saturday.. The streets were lined with crowds hoping to catch a glance at the royal family, while over 1400 soldiers, 200 ...
Last year’s June 2023 festivities marked King Charles III’s first Trooping the Colour since taking over leadership duties from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died at age 96 in ...
The annual Trooping the Colour ceremony commemorates the monarch’s birthday with a grand military parade and the famous gathering of royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony to watch the Royal ...
The 2022 Trooping the Colour ceremony was held on Thursday 2 June 2022, as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II.Over 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses, and 400 musicians came together in the traditional parade to mark the Queen's Official Birthday, which usually takes place on the second Saturday of June. [1]
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Kent watch from the balcony during the Trooping the Colour ceremony at Horse Guards Parade, central London, as the Queen celebrates her official birthday, on day ...