今日睇唔到Trooping the Colour可以睇返官方照~~
Today The Queen and other members of The Royal Family attended The Queen’s birthday parade on Horse Guards Parade - Trooping the Colour.
This year, the 1st Battalion The Coldstream Guards were being "Trooped" and it was first time The Duke of York rode for the first time in his role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.
His Royal Highness took over as Colonel from his father, The Duke of Edinburgh, in December 2017.
During her reign The Queen has attended Trooping the Colour every year except 1955 when it was cancelled because of the general strike. In this photo the then Princess Elizabeth accompanies King George VI in 1947, in HM's first Trooping the Colour since she was made Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.
The other Royal Colonels are The Princess Royal (riding as Colonel of the Blues and Royals), The Prince of Wales (riding as Colonel of the Welsh Guards) and The Duke of Cambridge (riding as Colonel of the Irish Guards).
Following Trooping, members of The Royal Family stood on the balcony to watch a fly past, in which 23 aircraft took part highlighting the range of aircraft used by the Royal Air Force, including the Red Arrows Aerobatic Team, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, helicopters and fast jet combat aircraft.
Find out more about the ceremony here: http://bit.ly/2oJmszo
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【英國皇室小故事】為何英女王在Trooping the Colour時側身騎馬? (Side-saddle)
英女王除了出名愛哥基,還很愛馬,直至去年91歲時,仍被看到在Windsor Castle附近騎馬!
後生時,她每年在Trooping the Colour (best known as Queen's birthday parade) 都會穿著相應的軍服親自策騎在軍團前。
大家可有留意到她策騎時是穿著長裙和側身而坐的。
這種騎姿歷史悠久,傳統女性騎馬時也穿著長裙,為保持優雅側騎是唯一的方法。 但這種騎姿其實很考工夫,對馬的要求也很高,需要有特別的訓練。
在1981便曾有一個男人在人群中用手槍發空彈,一度使英女王的馬受驚,但她也能駕馭。多年來在沒有任何人牽馬的情況下隨隊伍行走,兩旁還有這麼多人夾道觀看而沒有任何意外,足見其深厚功力。
一直到1987年,她的馬Burmese退役後,她便再沒有在Trooping the Colours時策騎了,而改為坐馬車。
Trooping the Colour小知識:
Trooping the Colour, 軍旗敬禮分列式,通俗說法即女王壽辰遊行 (Queen's birthday parade)。 自1748年開始便有,現為每年6月第2個星期六。所以2018年將在6月9日舉行。
閱兵儀式風雨不改,左上那張圖攝於1982年,下著雨使英女王樣子看來有些狼狽,但一切仍然要繼續的。
右邊的圖拍得很好,除了看到英女王英姿颯颯的樣子,還有她身後的其實是年輕的查理斯王子(左) 和菲臘親王(右) 呢!
制服也非常講究,不同的軍團有不同顏色的帽子羽毛的和紐扣數目。
Welsh Guards(威爾斯衛) 紐扣5粒為一組;
Irish Guards(愛爾蘭衛隊) 4粒為一組;
Scots Guards(蘇格蘭衛隊) 3粒為一組;
Coldstream Guards(高士廉衛隊) 2粒為一組;
Grenadier Guards(擲彈兵衛隊) 則1粒1粒平均分布。
帽子也絕不簡單,名叫bearskin head, 顧名思義,真的是由熊毛做的!
[https://londonist.com/…/are-the-queen-s-guard-s-bearskin-ha…]
今年的Trooping the Colour還有2個多星期便到,到時候大家好好留意一下吧~
Reference:
Jubilee --Tim Graham
延伸閱讀:
Trooping the Colour | 英女王官方生日皇家閱兵典禮
https://www.honglingjin.co.uk/39338.html
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/…/%E8%BB%8D%E6%97%97%E6%95%AC%E7…
[Photo credit: Tim Graham]
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