Trooping the Color 2022: How the Queen’s official birthday is celebrated in June

What happens during Trooping the Color?

During the parade, the Queen examines soldiers from the Household Department at the Horse Watch Parade in Whitehall.

The colorful exhibition features 1,400 officers and men at the parade, 200 horses and 400 musicians from 10 bands. The Queen always attends and accepts the greeting.

According to the Household Department, the commanding officer gives 113 words of command, and other colors of the regiment are introduced into the military unit each year.

The parade begins when the Queen leaves Buckingham Palace at 10 a.m. in a carriage accompanied by a cavalry regiment sovereign.

She usually came on a side saddle on a horse, dressed in the uniform of a regiment that was military. However, since 1987 she has come by carriage.

The Queen arrives at the Horse Guards Parade to take the King’s salute to the officers and men at the parade at 11 a.m., then conducts an inspection of soldiers dressed in ceremonial uniforms of red tunics and bearskin hats.

The regimental color (flag) they form is then transmitted to the bands to the music of the bands.

As the soldiers march past the Queen, he returns to Buckingham Palace for another greeting.

Once there, members of the royal family join her on the balcony of the palace. A greeting with 41 rifles is then held in Green Park.

The Queen has greeted at every parade since her accession to the throne 68 years ago, except in 1955, when there was a strike by the National Railways.

Last year, however, the Welsh Guard and mass household department groups led a scaled-down celebration at Windsor Castle due to restrictions on the Covid-19 lock.

The socially distanced ceremony was pulled off with just two weeks of rehearsals and the royal family watched from their homes instead of appearing as usual on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

When is the Queen’s Real Birthday?

The Queen was born on April 21, 1926; she turned 96 this year.

How does the Queen celebrate April 21?

The Queen usually celebrates her true birthday privately with her family. While fanfares are mostly reserved for her official birthday in the summer, there are more gun salutes at noon every year on April 21 in London.

For her 96th birthday, the Queen has invited children from the Royal County of Windsor to attend a traditional 21-rifle salute in front of Windsor Castle on her birthday.

The Windsor Council celebrated Her Majesty’s birthday with the annual shooting of miniature cannons at The Long Walk, with a special tribute led by Mayor John Story.

The selection of children attending the ceremony to shoot from a cannon, under the supervision of a weapons expert, was selected.

Why does the queen have two birthdays?

Although Trooping the Color was first performed for military purposes under King Charles II in the 1600s, the parade became an official part of the British calendar a century later.

It is a tradition started by George II in 1748 and owes its origin to the eternal problem of British weather.

George was born in November and thought the weather would be too cold for the birthday parade at that time of year. So he decided to combine the birthday celebration with an annual military parade.

This is a tradition that has continued to this day, as all British sovereigns have the opportunity to have an ‘official’ birthday.

Since the Queen’s real birthday is April 21, she decided to celebrate every year in June. When she first ascended the throne, she decided on her official birthday on the second Thursday in June; the same day as the official celebration of her father King George VI.

However, in 1959, the Queen decided that her official birthday would be two days later, the second Saturday in June – and it has been the same ever since.

How can I watch the Queen’s birthday parade?

The Queen’s birthday parade is broadcast live every year by the BBC.

Usually, the parade can be viewed up close, either by buying tickets or by standing in The Mall, where the Queen and members of the royal family travel to and from Buckingham Palace by carriage.

This article is updated with the latest information.