Trooping the Colour

Watched the tail end of this spectacle on Saturday and it really makes me come over all patriotic.  All those people filling up the Mall on the road to Buckingham Palace after HM The Queen has been driven up there in an open carriage with Prince Philip at her side, surrounded by the lifeguards and members of the Household Cavalry all in their slendour,  a 21 gun (cannon) salute going off in St James' Park after the troopers had ridden in with their guns and smart livery, a sightt o make you proud.  It's the Queens Birthday as well you see, and it's all combined.  All the troops parade before The Queen and the colours (flags) go with them.  Up until a few years ago The Queen used to take the salute on horesback too, but now at 80 +  years old it's not something she can do anymore, bet she would still love to though.  I'm proud of our Queen, all her life given over to public service.  So ok yes she does have pomp and ceremony wherever she goes and has the good fortune to be born into a royal family where poverty is unknown and she's never wanted for anything but although I'm not a royalist I still admire her for what she has done.  She's never been involved in any scandals and has always been good, decent, brave and honourable and I salute her for that.  What the royal family will be like when she is no longer Head of State I don't know.  HM The Queen has ALWAYS been, and will continue to be our First Lady and not the wife of the Prime Minister (a certain hard nosed woman from the previous but one administration who thought she was the First Lady comes to mind, who thought it above her to courtesy/show deference to the Queen, the Queen being who she was didn't take any ntoice in public, but how rude!).  Thankfully PM's wives since that one have been much more willing to go with tradition.

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