QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY PARADE, 12 JUNE 2010
From the Court Circular
“Her Majesty was present at The Queen's Birthday Parade on Horse Guards Parade this morning at which The Queen's Colour of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards was trooped.
The Queen was accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh (Colonel, Grenadier Guards), The Duke of Kent (Colonel, Scots Guards), The Prince of Wales (Colonel, Welsh Guards) and The Princess Royal (Gold Stick in Waiting and Colonel, The Blues and Royals, Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons).
Her Majesty was attended by General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank (Gold Stick and Colonel, The Life Guards), Major General James Bucknall (Colonel, Coldstream Guards), Major General Sir Sebastian Roberts (Colonel, Irish Guards) and Major General William Cubitt (Major General Commanding Household Division). The Lord Vestey (Master of the Horse), Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Ford, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Matheson of Matheson, younger, Major Simon Robinson (Mounted Equerries in Waiting), Captain Robert Sugden (Coldstream Guards, Dismounted Equerry in Waiting) and Colonel Toby Browne (The Blues and Royals, Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, Silver Stick in Waiting) were in attendance. Colonel Alastair Mathewson (Chief of Staff), Lieutenant Colonel Shamus Olivier (Silver Stick Adjutant) and the Household Division Staff were present. The procession was led by Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Bagshaw, Grenadier Guards (Brigade Major Household Division).
The Troops on Parade, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Roland Walker, Grenadier Guards (Field Officer in Brigade Waiting), received The Queen with a Royal Salute.
The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William of Wales, The Duke of York with Princess Beatrice of York and Princess Eugenie of York, The Earl and Countess of Wessex, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, The Duchess of Kent, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy, Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence and other Members of the Royal Family drove to Horse Guards Parade and witnessed The Queen's Birthday Parade.
On the conclusion of the Parade, Her Majesty drove in a carriage back to Buckingham Palace at the head of The Queen's Guard, preceded by The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, under the command of Major Neil Cross, the Massed Mounted Bands of the Household Cavalry, the Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry, under the command of Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-ankrah, The Blues and Royals, Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, and the Massed Bands of the Guards Division. On arrival at Buckingham Palace, The Queen's Guard entered the Forecourt and formed up opposite the Old Guard, the remaining Guards marching past Her Majesty. The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and the Household Cavalry ranked past The Queen. Her Majesty, from Buckingham Palace, witnessed a fly-past by aircraft of the Royal Air Force, led by Wing Commander Jeremy Attridge, to mark the official celebration of The Queen's Birthday.
Royal Salutes were fired today by The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery in Green Park and from the Tower of London Saluting Battery by the Honourable Artillery Company, under the command of Major Simon Reader.”
