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Will Trooping the Colour have a foreign royal participate?

Trooping the Colour is just a week away, and several details have been released about this year’s festivities. For the Platinum Jubilee (and the first Trooping since the global health crisis began), the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards will troop the colour. The Duke of Cambridge is the Royal Colonel of the Irish Guards and reviewed the troops this month ahead of Trooping in the…
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The floral tribute to The Queen in her Platinum Jubilee year

The Queen is taking centre stage at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show in more ways than one. Renowned florist Simon Lycett has created a larger-than-life display in honour of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, and the spectacular creation is at the heart of this year’s event, marking the return of the May flower show after being cancelled since 2019. Creating a massive…
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The Queen looks radiant in pink as she tours the Chelsea Flower Show

The Queen was out and about unexpectedly for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on Monday in a bright look to complement the flowers.  Her Majesty wore a white dress with a green and pink floral print and a bright pink coat over top. For the informal occasion, she did not have a hat.  She accessorised her spring look with her beloved three-strand pearl necklace, pearl stud earrings, a black…
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Style Moments of a Reign: the Monarch at Trooping the Colour

The Queen’s official birthday is marked every year in June with the Trooping the Colour ceremony—a military pageant and flypast celebrated with the wider Royal Family and the public in London. Though for the past 36 years she has participated in Trooping the Colour by riding in a carriage and wearing a dress, for the first 34 years of her reign, The Queen rode in the parade itself and wore…
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