Timelapse: Trooping the Colour ceremony

The Queen celebrated her official birthday with all the pomp and pageantry of the Trooping the Colour ceremony.

Joined by all the adult senior royals, she inspected 1,000 soldiers of the Household Division at Horse Guards Parade in central London.

This timelapse video of the ceremony shows the Colour being paraded on Horse Guards - this year it was the flag of Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards.

The Queen arrived in an Ascot Landau carriage after the short drive down The Mall from Buckingham Palace, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh.

Wearing a powder blue satin silk coat, dress and hat with navy trim, the Queen then rode alone in the carriage - the first time she has ridden in it for this ceremony - to inspect her troops.

The Prince of Wales, who is Colonel of the Welsh Guards, the Princess Royal, who is Colonel of the Blues and Royals, and the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel of the Irish Guards, were all on horseback for the ceremony.

The Queen's actual birthday was on April 21, when she turned 88.


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