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The Queens Birthday Parade
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The Queen’s Birthday Parade
Date: June 13, 2009
Time: 10:40 AM to 12:15 PM
Every year troops of the Household Division (Foot Guards and Household Cavalry) performs the ceremony of Trooping the Color in honor of the Queens official birthday although the Queen was born in April. Trooping the Color is held in June, the month of her coronation in 1953 and since the early 18th century, each regiment’s colors (two flags or banners) were paraded before its own troops so that soldiers would recognize and rally to them in battle. Nowadays this tradition continues for the benefit of the Queen who then receives a royal salute. The Queen returns to Buckingham Palace in a carriage at the close of proceedings and appears on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to wave to the crowds and watch a fly-past of RAF and occasionally other planes
Venue:
Horse Guards Parade,
Whitehall, London SW1
Access:
Nearest Tube Stations: Westminster (Jubilee, Circle, District lines); Charing Cross (Bakerloo, Northern lines
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