I'm John Bachelors with my colleague Gregory Coppley of Defense and Foreign Affairs who's teaching me how to be the subject of a king.

Charles is Gregory's king in all. How to be the subject of a king?

Charles is Gregory's king in Australia.

But he's also king at home and there have been three moments these last days that Gregory can help me understand. The first the trooping of the color, I understood that. Beautiful marching around all these

red-coated men with black bare skin on their heads and they were mounted the same way playing through the medley of British Empire songs.

But Garder Day and Ascot, what do those represent? So in that order, Gregory,

Trooping of the color, then Garder Day, then Ascot, what place do they fit in the in the Kings realm?

Well they're all actually highly significant events at which the King shows himself to his people and basically shows that he's

there, he's dynamic and capable of leadership which is one of the historical virtues of physical leadership is that you have to show

yourself to be recognized as the leader.

Now the tripping the color happens on the sovereign's official birthday every year and that's June 14th every year.

It's regardless of when the sovereign is actually born.

I see a lot of hasty researchers in the US media

saying it's on the Queen's birthday.

It's not the Queen's birthday anymore.

It's the King's birthday.

It's the sovereign's birthday. It's the Sovereign's birthday. And it's

basically an official holiday which is nothing to do with the actual birthday. But

it's a big choice because it's a good time of the year.

Normally sunny, although this year on Saturday,

it was raining, unfortunately,

and when the troops were out,

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