Prince George steals show, again

If there is one week royals-watchers love, it’s this one. It’s packed with event after event featuring masses of royals. They’re on horses, in carriages, one day decked out in velvet robes and feather caps, the next in the latest fashions.

It starts off with the biggest, grandest event on Saturday: Trooping the Colour.
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Here is the official explanation from the Household Division: The Sovereign’s birthday is officially celebrated by the ceremony of Trooping the Colour. This impressive display of pageantry takes place on a Saturday in June by her personal troops, the Household Division, on Horse Guards Parade, with Her Majesty the Queen herself attending and taking the salute. Over 1,400 officers and men are on parade, together with 200 horses; over 400 musicians from 10 bands and corps of drums march and play as one. Some 113 words of command are given by the Officer in Command of the Parade. The parade route extends from Buckingham Palace along The Mall to Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall and back again.

The soldiers, many of whom have served in Afghanistan, spend weeks practising. Timed to the second, it is such a complicated ceremony that there are two full dress rehearsals.While three Windsors are on horseback—Charles, William and Anne—the rest are in a variety of carriages. A mere 44 days after giving birth, Kate, duchess of Cambridge was in a barouche (yup, that’s the name) with her stepmother-in-law, Camilla, and brother-in-law, Harry. But six-week-old Princess Charlotte wasn’t forgotten. On the recommendation of her grandfather (Prince Charles), one of the marches played on Sunday was a very old one composed by the original Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV.
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 While many focus on the royals, the Queen’s eyes are firmly fixed on the Household Division. Officers say that with her vast experience in the Trooping the Colour, she misses nothing. "There is only one judge of how the parade has gone, and that’s Her Majesty," says one BBC commentator. After all, she’s been doing it for nearly 70 years.
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