Brian McDonald
Britain on Saturday hosted a birthday ceremony for King Charles III, with a military parade that also marked the Princess of Wales’s first public appearance since her cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
The annual event was also a demonstration of the stability of the monarchy, after months in which both the king and Kate, wife of heir to the throne Prince William, were sidelined due to cancer treatment.
The 42-year-old princess traveled in a horse-drawn carriage from Buckingham Palace down the grand avenue known as the Mall with her children George, 10, Charlotte, 9, and 6-year-old Louis. Onlookers cheered at the sight of Kate, dressed in a white dress by designer Jenny Packham and a Philip Treacy wide-brimmed hat.
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Huge crowds turn out every June to watch the parade, also known as Trooping the Colour, which begins with a procession involving horses, musicians and hundreds of soldiers in Buckingham Palace ceremonial uniform.
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Prince William, in military uniform, rode to the ceremony, at which troops in ceremonial dress paraded before the king with his regimental flag, or “color.”
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Charles, who is also being treated for an undisclosed form of cancer, traveled in a carriage with Queen Camilla, rather than on horseback as he did last year.
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The king inspected the troops from a dais on the parade ground, saluting as elite Foot Guard regiments marched.
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Five regiments take turns to parade their color and this year it was the turn of one company of the Irish Guards, which has Kate as an honorary colonel. The troops, dressed in scarlet tunics and bearskin hats, were led to the parade ground by their mascot, an Irish hound named Seamus.
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After the parade, family members took to the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch a military aircraft fly past – and delight the crowd below.
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In one of the many quirks of British royal convention, Saturday is not the king’s real birthday – it’s in November. Like his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, before him, Charles’s official birthday is on the second Saturday in June. The date was chosen because the weather is generally good, although Saturday morning sunshine gave way to a blustery and rainy day in London.
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