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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
Red Arrows to fly over London on Saturday
Red Arrows to fly over London on Saturday

Red Arrows to fly over London on Saturday

If you're in central London at lunchtime, look to the skies for a large military aircraft flypast including the Red Arrows.

Jun
16
2023
Tickets to attend Trooping the Colour and Garter Day 2023
Tickets to attend Trooping the Colour and Garter Day 2023

Tickets to attend Trooping the Colour and Garter Day 2023

Early each year is the time to plan ahead to attend some of the UK’s grand pomp and ceremony events for the summer ahead.

Feb
22
2023
Tickets for Trooping the Colour and Garter Day 2022
Tickets for Trooping the Colour and Garter Day 2022

Tickets for Trooping the Colour and Garter Day 2022

Early each year is the time to plan ahead to attend some of the UK’s grand pomp and ceremony events for the summer ahead.

Jan
10
2022
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: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony 2021
Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony 2021

Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony 2021

Each year, two major royal ceremonies take place, and, assuming they go ahead in 2021, you can request tickets to attend one of them.

Jan
07
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
Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony 2020
Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony 2020

Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony 2020

Each year, two major royal ceremonies take place, and you can request tickets to attend them.

Jan
15
2020
Red Arrows to fly over London on Saturday
Red Arrows to fly over London on Saturday

Red Arrows to fly over London on Saturday

Look to the skies on Saturday lunchtime (8th June), as a military flypast will pass over central London, followed by the Red Arrows.

Jun
07
2019
Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony
Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony

Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour and the Garter Ceremony

Each year, two major regal ceremonies take place, and you can request tickets to attend them.

Jan
03
2019
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
Time to book tickets for Royal Ceremonies
Time to book tickets for Royal Ceremonies

Time to book tickets for Royal Ceremonies

Early each year is the time to plan ahead to attend some of the UK's grand pomp and ceremony events for the summer ahead.

Jan
04
2018
Red Arrows to fly over London today
Red Arrows to fly over London today

Red Arrows to fly over London today

If you're planning to watch the large military aircraft flypast over Central London at lunchtime, and want to know what each of the aircraft overhead is, then the list has been released.

Jun
14
2014
How to get tickets to Royal Ceremonies
How to get tickets to Royal Ceremonies

How to get tickets to Royal Ceremonies

It may be a Diamond Jubilee year, and The Queen will be doing lots of things that will open only to carefully checked dignitaries, local politicians, and of course... school children.

Jan
02
2012

Book tickets for Trooping the Colour

For 2024 booking details, go here. —   The annual Trooping the Colour ceremony occurs in June at Horse Guards Parade – and while you can watch it on the telly or parts of it from The Mall, it is

Feb
22
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