For the Trooping the Colour in June, the Queen's birthday becomes a public spectacle. She traditionally parades the streets of London — through Buckingham Palace, The Mall, and the Horse Guards Parade — and makes an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with other royal family members.
As Insider's Mikhaila Friel wrote in her report , social-distancing measures in the UK and the Queen self-isolating at Windsor Castle mean this year's Trooping the Colour is not possible. So, instead of a big parade, this Saturday's celebration will be a small, private affair held on the grounds of Windsor Castle without other members of the royal family or the public.
As Friel writes, citing Hello! Magazine , "the Queen has only ever missed the official Trooping the Colour ceremony on one other occasion, when the event was canceled due to rail strikes in The elaborate parade dates back to during the Restoration of King Charles II and became an occasion for honoring both the monarch and the military in , according to a blog post by the historian, author, and royal commentator Dr.
Carolyn Harris. The Trooping the Colour has been held on the sovereign's birthday since the traditions were combined by King Edward VII in , Harris explained in her blog post.
The King, whose birth date was in November, marked his official birthday in May or June, according to the royal family website. When she turned 90, Her Majesty walked around Windsor, unveiled a plaque on the Queen's Walkway, and lit a beacon followed by over set alight across the UK and the world. By Rebecca Cope and Hope Coke. So, like any wise king would do, he decided to move his birthday and combine his celebration with Trooping the Colour , an annual summer military parade.
By Rebecca Cope. Elsewhere around the world, the Queen happens to have a few more birthdays, with various Commonwealth countries celebrating at different dates throughout the year. In the past, official celebrations to mark a King or Queen's birthday in the UK have been held on a day that isn't their actual birthday.
But he wanted it to be possible to have a big public celebration - and November wasn't the time do it. So, given that his actual birthday wouldn't be a good time of year for a birthday parade, he decided to combine it with an annual military parade in the summer, when the weather would hopefully be nice.
The Queen usually spends her actual birthday with her family. There is usually a gun salute in Hyde Park, a gun salute in Windsor Great Park and a gun salute at the Tower of London on 21 April but they were cancelled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Queen and the Royal Family were still in mourning following the death of Prince Philip , aged 99, so celebrations were private. The Trooping the Colour parade marks her official birthday and usually takes place in June, but that has also been cancelled this year.
Following consultation with Government and other relevant parties it has been agreed that The Queen's Official Birthday Parade, also known as Trooping the Colour, will not go ahead this year in its traditional form in central London. Options for an alternative Parade, in the quadrangle at Windsor Castle, are being considered.
Trooping the Colour has marked the official birthday of the British monarch for more than years. It's also known as The Queen's Birthday Parade. More than soldiers, horses and musicians usually take part in the event, so it's quite a spectacle! Lots of members of the public waving flags and wearing Union Jacks normally fill the Mall outside Buckingham Palace to watch it. On the day, normally a big parade starts at the Queen's official residence - Buckingham Palace - before moving along the Mall to Horse Guards Parade at Whitehall, near to Downing Street, and then back again.
Then it's traditional for the royal family to travel down the Mall as part of the ceremony, and gather on Buckingham Palace's balcony to greet well-wishers and watch RAF planes perform an aerial display for the occasion. In however, the celebration will look similar to last year's scaled down Trooping the Colour with the notable difference that, after Prince Philip's death , the Queen will be accompanied by her cousin, the Duke of Kent.
This year, the parade will also be "formed by soldiers who have played an integral role in the NHS COVID response, as well as those who have been serving on military operations overseas. Trooping the Colour: What is it and why do the Royal Family attend?
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Why not on the actual day? Here is The Queen as a baby being held by her mum and dad, then known as the Duke and Duchess of York, in a photo taken on 1 May Here is the Queen as a baby being introduced to the world on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, alongside her parents and her grandparents.
How does she mark her birthdays? Getty Images.
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