Trooping the Colour: King's Birthday Parade plans announced by palace - BBC

The King volition thrust connected horseback, alongside the Prince of Wales, successful his archetypal King's Birthday Parade arsenic monarch connected 17 June, Buckingham Palace has said.

Their wives, Camilla, the Queen Consort, and the Princess of Wales volition ticker the ceremony, known arsenic Trooping the Colour, from carriages.

The yearly show of subject pomp and ceremonial successful cardinal London marks the monarch's authoritative birthday.

It volition travel conscionable weeks aft the King's coronation connected 6 May.

Buckingham Palace besides unveiled caller honorary royal colonel roles of Foot Guard regiments - British Army regiments with peculiar ceremonial roles.

Catherine has been named arsenic colonel of the Irish Guards, taking implicit the relation from her hubby Prince William.

Camilla volition go colonel of the Grenadier Guards. She takes implicit the relation from the Duke of York, who was stripped of his subject titles pursuing fallout implicit intersexual battle allegations, claims helium made nary admittance of liability for and has ever denied.

Meanwhile, Prince William volition instrumentality the colonel of the Welsh Guards rubric from his father.

The pageantry of Trooping the Colour has marked the monarch's authoritative day for much than 260 years.

More than 1,400 soldiers volition parade, with 200 horses and hundreds of service musicians taking portion successful a ceremonial marked by subject precision, horsemanship and fanfare.

The parade takes spot astatine Horse Guards Parade, earlier the royal enactment instrumentality up The Mall for a Royal Air Force fly-past they volition ticker from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.