King Charles to present New Colours ahead of monarch's birthday parade
The King inspecting his troops at the ceremony in 2023
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King Charles is set to present the New Colours today ahead of the monarch's upcoming birthday parade.
The King, 75, will present the New Colours to No. 9 and No. 12 Company The Irish Guards at Windsor Castle today, as Colonel-in-Chief of The Household Division.
The new Colours will be trooped in the Trooping of the Colour parade this coming Saturday.
The Presentation of New Colours Parade will start with The Band of the Irish Guards, led by the Irish Guards’ Regimental Mascot, an Irish wolfhound named Turlough Mor.
The mascot will march the Irish Guards into Windsor Castle’s Quadrangle via the George IV Gate.
The Old Colours will be marched off parade and the New Colours will be laid on a drum stack altar.
The King, accompanied by the Irish Guards Regimental Lieutenant Colonel, Major General Sir Christopher Ghika, will arrive at the Quadrangle from the Sovereign’s Entrance and proceed to a dais facing the parade.
To mark Charles's arrival, there will be a Royal Salute as well as the National Anthem.
King Charles presenting the New Colours in 2023
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His Majesty will then inspect the Guardsmen and Officers on parade before the Chaplain General consecrates the Colours with a blessing.
The monarch will then present the Colours to two junior officers.
King Charles will then move to the dais to address the parade.
This Saturday's Trooping the Colour ceremony will be attended by King Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince Edward, Princess Anne and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
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King Charles III departing Buckingham Palace for Trooping the Colour last year
PAIt has not yet been confirmed whether or not Princess Kate, 42, will attend the ceremony.
The Princess of Wales is currently battling cancer after beginning a course of preventative chemotherapy earlier this year.
In 2023, Kate was joined by her three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.