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Royal Family at Trooping the Colour

The Queen is celebrating her official birthday with the Trooping the Colour parade.

More than 1,100 soldiers will take part in the traditional display of pomp and pageantry.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will ride in a vintage carriage from Buckingham Palace along The Mall to Horse Guards Parade in central London.

Prince William and Prince Harry, both likely to be in military uniform, are expected to travel in another horse drawn carriage with their stepmother the Duchess of Cornwall.

The Earl and Countess of Wessex will join the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in the second carriage.

On horseback will be the Prince of Wales, who is Colonel of the Welsh Guards, the Princess Royal, who is Colonel of the Blues and Royals, and the Duke of Kent, Colonel of the Scots Guards.

The procession will be accompanied by a Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry, made up of Life Guards and Blues and Royals, in their silver and gold breastplates and plumed helmets.

Four of the five Foot Guards regiments of the Household Division - the Irish Guards, Grenadier Guards, Scots Guards and the Coldstream Guards - will march in the parade wearing bearskin hats and red tunics.

The Massed Bands and the Mounted Bands of the Household Cavalry will also take part, as will the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery. The Colour being paraded on Horse Guards this year is the flag of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards.

After the Queen takes the salute on Horse Guards, the royals will head back to Buckingham Palace to gather on the balcony to watch the traditional RAF flypast.

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