PREVIEW: #KINGCHARLES: Conversation with colleague Gregory Copley re the June 15 King's Birthday ceremony called "Trooping of the Colour" on Horse Guard's Parade in London: its origins, its significance, its success at providing the Commonwealth a unifyin
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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1798 Light Horse volunteers of London and Westminster, reviewed by His Majesty on Wimbledon Common, July 5, 1798
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| 0:27.0 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with Gregory Coppley, my colleague and friend, about |
| 0:35.0 | Trooping of the color. |
| 0:37.3 | The ceremony will take place June 15th, which is the agreed-upon date of the King's birthday. |
| 0:42.8 | It's not Charles's birthday, but it's the King's birthday, |
| 0:46.0 | as it was the Queen's birthday. |
| 0:48.2 | It takes place with the household guard. |
| 0:52.1 | Each regiment takes turns year by year and as Gregory explains it, |
| 0:56.5 | what the Trooping of the color is all about |
| 0:58.9 | hearkens back to the days when you had to follow the colored standard of your unit on a battlefield. the The grouping of the color and the significance this year is that Charles was in attendance |
| 1:16.0 | on horseback in his first year as monarch. This year because of his illness there's unlikely to be any wisdom in being on a horse. |
| 1:27.5 | So therefore the expectation is a carriage or a reviewing stand. |
| 1:33.0 | Gregory explains very carefully, also about the Queen and how she enjoyed it. |
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