Trooping the Colour: Royals celebrate King Charles's first birthday parade

King Charles III is taking portion successful his archetypal Trooping the Colour connected horseback, the subject spectacle which marks the monarch's authoritative birthday.

It is the archetypal clip a monarch has ridden connected horseback astatine the lawsuit successful 30 years, erstwhile the precocious Queen rode her horse, Burmese, successful 1986.

The King received the royal salute arsenic the Colonel-in-Chief of the Household Division's regiments.

Thousands watched the lawsuit successful cardinal London.

The King is joined connected horseback by the royal Colonels - the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal.

The Duke of Edinburgh is besides riding during the ceremonial successful his relation arsenic Colonel of the 1st Battalion London Guards.

The elder royals connected horseback person been joined by the Queen, the Princess of Wales and her children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, who came on to enactment their grandfather.

The King and elder royals waved from the balcony astatine Buckingham Palace earlier watching the flypast, wherever immense cheers could beryllium heard arsenic they appeared and began to wave.

Crowds descended connected the Mall to witnesser the event, with a oversea of mobile phones up successful the aerial to movie the moment.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was besides spotted successful the crowd, arsenic good arsenic Labour person Sir Keir Starmer, on with premier ministers of immoderate Commonwealth states and realms.

The past clip a monarch was connected horseback was erstwhile illustration toppers included Wham! and Doctor and the Medics.

One royal instrumentality said they were "so happy" to beryllium astatine Trooping the Colour aft missing retired connected the King's Coronation.

One said: "We're truthful blessed astir coming today. We've been bringing our kids to spot each of the pomp and ceremonial for years.

"We've been exchanging photos, and we've got plans for day cocktails later."

Before the ceremonial began, the Prince of Wales paid tribute to those took portion successful past week's rehearsal successful soaring temperatures, which reached 30°C (86F) successful London.

It begins astatine Buckingham Palace and travels down The Mall towards Horse Guards Parade.

As portion of the event, the colour - oregon regimental emblem - volition beryllium trooped successful beforehand of hundreds of Guardsmen and officers volition beryllium the King's Colour of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.

There is euphony and marching, and the King volition transportation retired an inspection of the soldiers - moving dilatory on the enactment arsenic they basal successful formation.

Following the parade, troops fired a 41-gun salute successful Green Park to people the King's authoritative day - portion from the Tower of London the Honourable Artillery Company fired 62 volleys.

It volition culminate successful a monolithic flypast that volition see the Red Arrows - the Royal Family volition ticker from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

They volition stitchery connected the balcony to ticker an extended subject flypast aft the show connected coronation time had to beryllium scaled down owed to atrocious weather.

The ceremonial volition see an extended flypast of astir seventy craft to marque up for the scaled-back show astatine the King's coronation.

Around 70 craft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force volition instrumentality portion - including craft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the C-130 Hercules connected its last ceremonial flight, modern Typhoon combatant jets with a red, achromatic and bluish finale from the Red Arrows.