Everything you need to know about Trooping the Colour | Royal | News

Connecting the Colors is one of the biggest events on the royal calendar (Image: Getty)

Joining the Color celebrates the monarch’s official birthday and has been held almost every year for over 260 years. First, King II. It was carried out during the reign of Charles II and was later commissioned by King Charles II. It was introduced as an annual event during George’s reign and has seen many adaptations over the years.
The Troop in the Color is one of the largest military parades of the year, attended by approximately 1,600 soldiers, 400 musicians and more than 200 horses.
Members of the Royal Family appear either on horseback or in a horse-drawn carriage. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Crown, as Royal Colonels, always ride on horseback in military uniform; Meanwhile, the rest of the senior royal family is traveling by cars.
At the start of the ceremony the King is greeted with a Royal Salute on Horse Guards Parade and a 41 Gun Salute fired by the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery from Green Park. The king then inspects his troops.
A regiment of the Foot Guards is chosen each year to rally their Colors before the King. This year it’s the turn of the Grenadier Guards, who commissioned Queen Camilla as a colonel. There are five regiments of the Foot Guards that march from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade at Whitehall: the Grenadier Guards, the Welsh Guards, the Irish Guards, the Scots Guards and the Coldstream Guards.