BBC Trooping The Colour The Kings Birthday Parade 2023 Part 1

Trooping The Colour The Kings Birthday Parade 2023 Huw Edwards introduces live coverage of King Charles III’s first official birthday parade. From the heart of London, the Welsh Guards troop their colour on Horse Guards Parade in a world-renowned spectacle full of music, majesty and military precision. Trooping the Colour is a ceremonial event performed every year on Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom, by regiments of Household Division, to celebrate the official birthday of the British sovereign. It is also known as the Sovereign’s Birthday Parade. The Sovereign’s birthday is officially celebrated by the ceremony of Trooping the Colour (King’s Birthday Parade). This impressive display of pageantry takes place on a Saturday in June by his personal troops, the Household Division, on Horse Guards Parade, with His Majesty the King himself attending and taking the salute. Over 1400 officers and men are on parade, together with two hundred horses; over four hundred mu