Trooping of the colour

Trooping of the colour is a Royal event held in London in June every year.
The Queen's birthday is in April but the trooping of the colour is held in June to mark her public birthday, and also in hopes of good weather.

They were all very lucky today as we have had some heavy rain, I am sure most people who attended in the lovely hats and suits were praying for dry weather!
The Queen who has just turned 85 looked wonderful as normal in a beautiful pale blue coat and hat , and was smiling and happy throughout.

I really did enjoy watching the soldiers and their matching, and you can't help wondering how they do it.

I know they started work toward it in April and watching today it really showed. The huge part of Trooping of the colour is this very technical matching, and I have to take my hat off to them today!

I guess for many young soldiers in the troops they were glad it was a cool day, as on a hot one they can lose as much as 6 pounds in sweat! Normally you see at least one or two fainting, but I think all was well today.

It does make you very proud when you see events like this, as I think the UK does it all so well. I would love to see it in person but the cost and crowds means sadly it was not to happen for me this year.

If you can see any highlights then do as what ever your opinion of the Royal family, it was a very colourful and clever event. I think they all did wonderful to remember everything under such stress.

And lastly it was nice to see Prince William riding his horse, wearing the same Red Irish Guards tunic with blue sash he wore for his wedding. He looked very proud and handsome on horseback for the first time at the Trooping of the colour.