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Old 11-06-16, 10:07 AM
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I HOPE YOU ARE ALL WATCHING THE TROOPING OF THE COLOUR

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Presumably what it says on the front of an official programme ( of which there are quite a few on E bay ) :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trooping-T...kAAOSwZ8ZW-T7~


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Absolutely first class turnout this year. I always regret that the Army didn't keep the SMLE's with bayonets purely for ceremonial occasions like this. I still can't get used to the plastic looking SA80's.
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No 1st The or Of in the title. Sure someone can explain why. Regards, Paul.
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Does anyone have an explanation for the following.

At the start of the parade the colour is hold by a sergeant and guarded by two guardsmen. The two guardsmen were special mentioned because they are twins and their mother was interviewed. Nevertheless, when the colour was later taken over by the escort, there was only one of the twins left. Something I can not remember from earlier occasions (when the two weren't twins of course).
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I can answer my own question now. A bit searching on the web shows that he fainted.

For the press this seems to become the main fact of today's parade instead of just a detail.

On the other hand, the BBC coverage never even mentioned the obvious missing person.
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Queen's Birthday Parade...
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Trooping The Colour, that's what it said on my Colonel's Review program last year

There are 3 main parades, called for reference:

The Queen's Birthday Parade [The main Trooping of the Colour]

Colonel's Review [Final Dress Rehearsal, 1 week before]

Major General's Review [1st Dress Rehearsal, 2 weeks before]

http://www.householddivision.org.uk/trooping-the-colour
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As is usual, I managed to miss out completely, yet again, but, I have to say, in my opinion, at least, it is always really magnificent, the very best of the season, in particular, the Household Cavalry, just superb!
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At the risk of sounding over patriotic, I have always felt that there is no country in the world that can match us for a display such as this!
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Agreed, without any doubt whatsoever, the best in the world!
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Old 14-06-16, 10:36 AM
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Trooping The Colour, that's what it said on my Colonel's Review program last year

There are 3 main parades, called for reference:

The Queen's Birthday Parade [The main Trooping of the Colour]

Colonel's Review [Final Dress Rehearsal, 1 week before]

Major General's Review [1st Dress Rehearsal, 2 weeks before]

http://www.householddivision.org.uk/trooping-the-colour
Thank you.

The title of the Parade is a bit of a box-up really.

I have a whole series of Standing Orders of the Brigade of Guards [SOBG], and also a lot of Guards Regimental [and indeed battalion] Standing Orders, and they are not consistent with each other, or with the published programme or indeed the official website.

You pays your money and takes our choice:

Probably most correct would be/ is: The Sovereign's Birthday Parade.

SOBG 1962 offers "The Parade held in London on the Occasion of the Queen's Birthday"

So to call it "The Queen's Birthday Parade" cannot be wrong.

However, in the public's mind it is either "The Trooping of the Colour" which I do not like much, or "Trooping the Colour", which seems to be flavour of the month and has been for many years.

Either way, the actual Trooping is but a small [although vital] part of a much bigger enterprise: what, for example, have the Household cavalry or King's Troop got to do with that?

The matter is not as complicated as trying the explain the Laws of Cricket to a foreigner, but straightforward it is not.

Magnificent however.
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Either way, the actual Trooping is but a small [although vital] part of a much bigger enterprise: what, for example, have the Household Cavalry or The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery got to do with that?
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