Our Little Corner of the World: Trooping the Colour

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Trooping the Colour

I saw the Queen! For reals! And Kate and Harry . . . and a bunch of others! Every year there is a parade in June to celebrate HRH's birthday. There are seated tickets for the main event, and every year I have applied for said tickets, to no avail. Until this year! I was granted the maximum allowed three tickets. Scott wasn't keen on going and this just happened to fall on a weekend where we had family in town, so I invited Scott's aunt and cousin visiting from the states to join me for this royal day out.

The Mall lined with the Union Jack

Queueing, the British love a good queue

Fascinators and hats of all colours and sizes!

The Prince Charles carriage, carrying Kate, Harry and Camilla!

The Prince Andrew carriage, carrying Andrew, Beatrice and Eugenie

Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth II . . .

Much pomp and circumstance . . .

Some of our Utah Ashton family, Julie and Meredith

Love this bobby's crooked schnoz

I loved all the top hats and formalwear

5 comments:

Sonia @ My Sweet Monkey said...: Lucky you! The pictures are fab! I love how formal the Brits can get with their hats and fascinators. Wish I had more occasions to wear them.; June 18, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Tabby Grey said...: Very cool!!!; June 19, 2013 at 7:22 PM
Becca said...: Okay - I definitely need to find out your 'in' how you know about all these things! I LOVE the picture of all the red guard - it's beautiful!; June 25, 2013 at 5:20 PM
Erin said...: Very cool. Please tell me you wore a hat!; June 27, 2013 at 8:24 PM
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