King and Queen cheered via hundreds at Trooping the Colour

Crowds cheered as King Charles and Queen Camilla attended the Trooping the Colour parade to mark the monarch’s legit birthday.

The royal couple rode in a carriage within the army procession alongside the Mall and into Horse Guards Parade the place the King reviewed guardsmen on parade.

They have been joined via contributors of the Royal Family, together with the Prince and Princess of Wales and their youngsters.

The instance was once stuffed with the normal pageantry however, on the King’s request, there have been marks of appreciate to keep in mind the sufferers of the Air India crash, with the Royal Family within the parade dressed in black armbands.

The crisis killed 241 passengers and team, together with greater than 50 Britons, in addition to a minimum of 8 individuals who have been at the floor when the plane got here down.

This yr’s comfortable rite had an overly other really feel in comparison to closing yr – and no longer simply because it was once sunshine quite than lashing rain.

At Trooping the Colour in 2024 there have been feverish hobby in Catherine’s go back to public lifestyles, in what was once her first public look since her most cancers analysis.

This yr she might be noticed smiling along her youngsters, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and seven-year-old Prince Louis – who gave a gap-toothed grin in a carriage along his brother.

The King, who remains to be present process his personal remedy for most cancers, rode within the carriage for the second one yr working quite than using on horseback.

This was once a rite celebrating the King’s birthday. Although King Charles’s exact birthday is 14 November, monarchs traditionally have had an “official” birthday for public occasions corresponding to this, held in the summertime within the hope of higher climate.

Along with the crowds of well-wishers and vacationers, there was once additionally a protest via anti-monarchists, who chanted and waved Not My King flags.

The tournament, which noticed 1,350 troops participating within the King’s Birthday Parade, had its conventional finale with the Royal Family at the Buckingham Palace balcony staring at a flypast.

This yr the Red Arrows went inexperienced, as they used a extra environmentally pleasant mix of gas, together with sustainable aviation gas and a biofuel for the trademark vapour path.

That could have happy the King, an environmental champion, who has been encouraging the usage of sustainable aviation gas the place imaginable on royal flights and desires to advertise its wider use.