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Tickets Alert: The Household Division’s Beating Retreat
Tickets Alert: The Household Division’s Beating Retreat

Tickets Alert: The Household Division’s Beating Retreat

Fancy an evening in Horseguards Parade watching a military precision drill, with cannons, and finished off with fireworks?

Mar
14
Tickets Alert: Ballot opens to attend the Trooping the Colour 2024
Tickets Alert: Ballot opens to attend the Trooping the Colour 2024

Tickets Alert: Ballot opens to attend the Trooping the Colour 2024

Trooping the Colour is a big military parade that marks the King's official birthday in June, and the ballot for tickets to be in the audience is now open.

Mar
04
Watch the English Civil War Society marching along the Mall
Watch the English Civil War Society marching along the Mall

Watch the English Civil War Society marching along the Mall

If you hang around The Mall in central London on the last Sunday of the month, you'll see the remarkable sight of several hundred English Civil War reenactors marching along the road.

Jan
18
Tickets Alert: A military musical spectacular in Horseguards parade
Tickets Alert: A military musical spectacular in Horseguards parade

Tickets Alert: A military musical spectacular in Horseguards parade

Each year, a few weeks after the Trooping the Colour, the centre of London sees another mass grouping of military and music, with fireworks.

Jun
19
2023
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat

Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat

Fancy an evening in Horseguards Parade watching a military precision drill, with cannons, and finished off with fireworks?

Mar
16
2023
The English Civil War Society marches through Central London
The English Civil War Society marches through Central London

The English Civil War Society marches through Central London

Had you been in central London on Sunday morning, you'd have seen over 200 people in full English Civil War clothing and arms marching through central London.

Jan
30
2023
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat

Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat

Fancy an evening in Horseguards Parade watching a military precision drill, with cannons, and finished off with fireworks?

Mar
15
2022
Tickets Alert: Military pomp at Horseguards Parade
Tickets Alert: Military pomp at Horseguards Parade

Tickets Alert: Military pomp at Horseguards Parade

A bit of military pomp and pageantry will take place next month at Horseguards Parade in Whitehall.

Jun
24
2021
Tickets Alert: The Household Division’s Beating Retreat
Tickets Alert: The Household Division’s Beating Retreat

Tickets Alert: The Household Division’s Beating Retreat

Fancy an evening in Horseguards Parade watching a military precision drill, with cannons, and finished off with fireworks?

Mar
16
2021
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat
Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat

Tickets Alert: The Household Division Beating Retreat

Fancy an evening in Horseguards Parade watching a military precision drill, with cannons, and finished off with fireworks?

Mar
10
2020
What’s it like to attend the Trooping the Colour?
What’s it like to attend the Trooping the Colour?

What’s it like to attend the Trooping the Colour?

Anyone can watch the Trooping the Colour on telly, but what's it like to be in the audience, in Horseguards Parade itself?

Jun
12
2018
Visiting the Household Cavalry Museum
Visiting the Household Cavalry Museum

Visiting the Household Cavalry Museum

While most museums and tourist hotspots are rubbing their hands with glee at the potential for tens of thousands of new visitors during the Olympics this summer, there is one museum that will lose out on this financial bonanza. Its

Feb
26
2012

Watch a Large Ceremonial Procession Along The Mall this Sunday

I’ve mentioned this

Jan
27
2011
Civil War march through Whitehall to mark the Nine Regicides
Civil War march through Whitehall to mark the Nine Regicides

Civil War march through Whitehall to mark the Nine Regicides

This Sunday marks the 350th anniversary of the Nine Regicides. The what? The Nine Regicides, or to put it another way, the week that nine men were executed by the gruesome method of being hanged, drawn and quartered. Their crime?

Oct
12
2010

Trooping the Colour

For 2024 booking details, go here. — Just a reminder that if you want to put your name into the ballot for tickets to watch the Trooping the Colour from the seated area in Horseguards, then you need to send

Feb
24
2009