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Trooping the Colour - 13 June 2009

The Queen's Colour of a battalion of Foot Guards is 'trooped' (carried along the ranks) each year before the Sovereign. Only one colour can be trooped at a time, and the five Household Regiments - Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards take their turn each year.

The ceremony derives from two old military ceremonies, Trooping the Colour and Mounting The Queen's Guard. The origin of the ceremony goes back to the early eighteenth century, and possibly even earlier, when the guards and sentries for the Royal Palaces and other important buildings in the capital were mounted daily on the parade ground by the Horse Guards building.

A feature of guard mounting was for the colours of the battalion to be carried (or 'trooped') slowly down the ranks so that they could be seen and recognised by the soldiers. In 1748 it was ordered that this parade would also mark the official birthday of the Sovereign. From the accession of George IV the parade became - with the few exceptions of two World Wars and a parade cancellation in 1955 caused by a national rail strike - an annual event.

The Queen's Birthday Parade will be held on Saturday 13th June 2009 on Horse Guards Parade when The Colour will be Trooped by 1st Battalion Irish Guards in the presence of Her Majesty.

source: www.royal.gov.uk
 
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Queen leaves Buckingham Palace 10.40am

Parade starts 11am

Precisely as the clock on the Horse Guards Building strikes eleven, the Royal Procession arrives at Horseguards Parade and The Queen takes the Royal Salute.
The parade begins with the Inspection, The Queen driving slowly down the ranks of all eight Guards and then past the Household Cavalry.

After the event, the Royal Family gathers on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch an RAF fly past at 1pm.

You can take a trip down memory lane by reviewing previous Trooping the Colour http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/f23/trooping-the-colour-2003-2008-a-9989.htm
 
Anyone know how to stream this for us in Canada and the US. I tried BBC One's streamer but all I get is "not available in this country" And none of my satellite's have BBC One either so I'm doomed.
 
You'll probably be out of luck unless they put up a special internationally-available live feed when it happens. They didn't in 2006 or 2007 (I wasn't checking last year, since I was there in person), so I doubt they will this year.

The only viable option I've seen is hoping someone uploads the whole thing to YouTube sometime after the fact.
 
^Thanks, I know one user uploaded the whole thing last year, actually he got almost every royal event last year up, I hope he continues and does it this year. I kinda wish CBC would show it , I mean she is our Queen too the least they could do is let us see her birthday parade. Oh well.
 
I think it comes down to ratings.

Would it rate in Canada?

I doubt if it would rate here. We didn't even get the whole of the 50th Jubilee celebrations. I was watching it early in the morning on Sky News UK but it wasn't on any of the free - to -air networks until about 2/3rds of the way through and then only the ABC showed it (same feed as I had been watching on SkyNews UK).

When I got to work and mentioned watching it no one else was interested at all.

For an annual event - there is no way we would get to see it. If we are lucky we might get a short 30 sec segment in the News. The royals aren't newworthy on a day to day basis in Australia any more - their scandals, weddings, and deaths rate but not things the Queen does every year.
 
Iluvbertie said:
I think it comes down to ratings.

For an annual event - there is no way we would get to see it. If we are lucky we might get a short 30 sec segment in the News. The royals aren't newworthy on a day to day basis in Australia any more - their scandals, weddings, and deaths rate but not things the Queen does every year.
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Same thing here.
Thank God we have You Tube! :ROFLMAO:
 
Iluvbertie said:
I think it comes down to ratings.
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I know what you mean, I'm shocked we got the coverage we did when Harry went to the US like 2 weeks ago, the only thing I ever hear about the Royals is they're scandals. When William screwed up last year with the RAF it got headline news on my local news channel, but they would never dare to mention the Queen's birthday. Oh well I guess I'll be able to see pics in the morning when I get up.:flowers: And I so agree thank God for youtube otherwise I'd be screwed.
 
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Iluvbertie said:
I think it comes down to ratings.

For an annual event - there is no way we would get to see it. If we are lucky we might get a short 30 sec segment in the News. The royals aren't newworthy on a day to day basis in Australia any more - their scandals, weddings, and deaths rate but not things the Queen does every year.
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I would think that the ABC would broadcast it, especially now that there is also ABC2 and ABC HD. It had live coverage whne Quentin Bryce and Micheal Jeffery were sworn in as Governor-General and the Trooping of the Colour sort of runs along the same lines. I'd have thought it would have been on in the middle of the night in Australia anyway and there is nothing on any of the channels except shopping so there is really no excuse.
 
RoyalistRiley said:
I would think that the ABC would broadcast it, especially now that there is also ABC2 and ABC HD. It had live coverage whne Quentin Bryce and Micheal Jeffery were sworn in as Governor-General and the Trooping of the Colour sort of runs along the same lines. I'd have thought it would have been on in the middle of the night in Australia anyway and there is nothing on any of the channels except shopping so there is really no excuse.
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Swearing in of GGs is important for Australians, although we don't see the swearing in of the actual government.

The Trooping of the Colour would begin at 8.00 p.m. by 10.00 p.m. (remember the Ashes will be shown live and each day's play will start at 11.00 am in England and that is 8.00 p.m. here). So it is on during prime TV time and it simply wouldn't rate.

Really - how many Aussies would like to watch the Queen ride in a carriage to look at some soldiers and than take another carriage ride back again to come onto a balcony and wave at people.

I doubt if I would watch it. All I need to do is see a photo or two and I regard myself as quite a keen royal watcher. If I was going to be there I would apply for tickets and be either at Horseguards or in The Mall but from this distance it doesn't excite.
 
There are some of us who would jump at the chance to see the Queen participating such a colourful display of pagentry. If we can;t have the London version, at least some coverage should be given to the Australian version (albeit on a smaller scale) whihc takes place at the Duntroon Military College. It was cancelled this year because of swine flu.
 
RoyalistRiley said:
There are some of us who would jump at the chance to see the Queen participating such a colourful display of pagentry. If we can;t have the London version, at least some coverage should be given to the Australian version (albeit on a smaller scale) whihc takes place at the Duntroon Military College. It was cancelled this year because of swine flu.
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Unfortunately you are a very small minority and just not worth the loss of revenue for the TV stations where ratings=$ and simply can't be ignored unless in the national interest e.g. Question Time or the Budget speech - even if a ratings loser they are shown as relevant and necessary.
 
Like I said, the ABC could easily stream the BBC's coverage on one of its additonal channels. No revenue lost there.

It is still important to remember that while Australia is a monarchy, all relevant traditions and protocols should be observed, regardless of public sentiment. Geogre Bush was still treated as President right until January 21 this year. Queen Elizabeth II should enjoy the same treatment until is decided otherwise
 
Trooping the Colour has started on BBC1- this year there a 7 Guards on parade instead of the more usual 6 since the Irish Guards have been recruiting recently

This year TRH The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William (in Air Force Uniform) and Prince Harry are in the 1st Carrage with TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex and The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in the 2nd Carriage

The Queen has left the Palace, she is wearing the same outfit as when she presented these colours to the Irish Guards in May and is accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh

Her Majesty has arrived on the Parade ground and is being recieved with a Royal Salute

The Queen is now reentering the Carriage and inspecting the line of guards, Her Majesty uses this as a chance to use her excellent eye for detail

The Escort for the Colour now moves forward to collect the Colour which will then be trooped
 
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RoyalistRiley said:
Like I said, the ABC could easily stream the BBC's coverage on one of its additonal channels. No revenue lost there.

It is still important to remember that while Australia is a monarchy, all relevant traditions and protocols should be observed, regardless of public sentiment. Geogre Bush was still treated as President right until January 21 this year. Queen Elizabeth II should enjoy the same treatment until is decided otherwise
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Ratings are still important to the ABC as they need to justify their funding to the government come budget time.

That being said - I don't ever remember being able to watch the Trooping the Colour as far back as the 60s so it just isn't something new.

We have never had a great deal of coverage of royal ceremonial from Britian of their mundane royal events. We have, as long as I can remember back to the 60s, only had royal weddings, funerals, etc. We didn't all get Charles Investiture live by the way. In the small country town where I lived we had a replay on the Sunday afternoon and I remember the complaints at school the next day about how boring it was and that their parents had made them sit through it. A lot of republicans born that day.

By the way - the BBC world is showing the Iranian election and SkyNews UK is showing its general news.

Channel 9 has a kids movie.
ABC has something called New Tricks
Channel 7 has the rugby
Channel 10 The Simpsons
ABC 2 has At the Movies

If the Trooping the Colour would rate it would be on but it simply wouldn't rate down here.
 
Some years ago (maybe 10 years...), trooping the colour was even aired on the first french channel TF1....Great saturday afternoons memories.....
 
What a lovely occasion this is. I think all the Royals ladies are looking pretty good this year. But the uniforms (& the horses) always steal the show
 
The event is going to be available on the BBC i-player for any who wish to watch it afterwards
 
There is/was a live feed from the BBC website
 
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Lady Louise made an appearance finally on the balcony at Trooping the Colour, how cute she is!
 
Good to finally see Lady Louise on the balcony and i spot Lady Rose Gilman as well beside William and Harry
 
it always a pleasure to see the royal family in the balcony in this special event :) this year marked the first appearence of the yong Lady Louise , hope to see the brother James next years ;)
 
Nico said:
Time to play at the annual "Guess the Royal" :ROFLMAO:;)

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Left hand side
Blonde girl in green dress - Lady Davina Lewis her husband Gary Lewis is standing at the very back with his mother-in-law
Earl and Countess of Ulster (she is in blue)
Lady Rose and George Gilman - his first appearance
Princess Alexandra in light beige
Lord and Lady Nicholas Windosr (?)
Duke of Kent
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester - at the very back nearly hidden

Centre
William
Harry
Edward and Sophie with Louise
Anne and Tim
Princess Michael - she always get herself right plum centre
Camilla and Charles
Queen and Duke of Edinburgh

Right Hand side
Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel and her two boys - in the black and white stripped jacket
Lord and Lady Linley and their two children -
Lady Helen Taylor - lady in the pill box with two boys Columbus and Cassius and at least on her girls either Estella or Eloise
Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor and Lady Amelia Windsor beside Prince Charles
The Duchess of Kent

Possible one - ?
There are some i cant properly see but there is a teenage girl beside Marina and Amelia Windosr (she has a pink flower in her hair) could this be Zenouska Mowatt plus there is a blonde boy beside P.Alexandra could this be Christian Mowatt or could they be Flora and Alexander Ogilvy ?
Also there is lady in a light blue suit with an elegant hat beside the Gloucesters and Alexandra who i cant identity - is it maybe James Ogilvy's wife Julia ?

NOT THERE
Peter and Autumn Phillips
Lady Ella Windsor
Prince Andrew
Princeses Beatrice and Eugenie
Lord Freddie Windsor
 
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