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Trooping the Colour

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The following description of the Queen's Jubilee Birthday Parade, which took place on 15 June, is taken from the Court Circular.

The Scots Guards, whose Colour was trooped on Saturday, celebrate their 360th anniversary this year. By coincidence the Colour of the Scots Guards formed as a bodyguard to Stuart King Charles II, was also paraded in the year of The Queen's Silver Jubilee. The Scots Guards are currently mounting guard at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Tower of London. They complete their current tour of Royal duty later this year.

Court Circular

BUCKINGHAM PALACE

June 15: Her Majesty was present at The Queen’s Birthday Parade on Horse Guards Parade this morning at which The Queen’s Colour of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards was trooped.

The Queen was accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh (Colonel, Grenadier Guards), The Duke of Kent (Colonel, Scots Guards), The Prince of Wales (Colonel, Welsh Guards) and The Princess Royal (Colonel, The Blues and Royals, Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, Gold Stick in Waiting).

Her Majesty was attended by General Sir Charles Guthrie (Colonel, The Life Guards), General Sir Michael Rose (Colonel, Coldstream Guards), the Duke of Abercorn (Colonel, Irish Guards) and Major General Redmond Watt (Major General Commanding Household Division).

The Lord Vestey (Master of the Horse), Lieutenant Colonel Seymour Gilbart-Denham (Crown Equerry), Lieutenant Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cartwright (Mounted Equerries in Waiting), Captain James Rous (Dismounted Equerry in Waiting) and Colonel Hamon Massey (The Blues and Royals, Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, Silver Stick in Waiting) were in attendance.

Colonel Simon Falkner (Chief of Staff), the Silver Stick Adjutant and the Household Division Staff were present.

The Troops on Parade, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Mark Bence-Trower, Scots Guards (Field Officer in Brigade Waiting, received The Queen with a Royal Salute.

The Duke of York, The Earl and Countess of Wessex, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy and other members of the Royal Family drove to Horse Guards Parade and witnessed The Queen’s Birthday Parade.

On the conclusion of the Parade, Her Majesty drove in a carriage back to Buckingham Palace at the head of The Queen’s Guard, preceded by The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, under the command of Major Simon Hall, the Massed Mounted Bands of the Household Cavalry, the Sovereign’s Escort of the Household Cavalry, under the command of Major Valentine Woyka, The Blues and Royals, Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, and the Massed Bands of the Guards Division.