“Escort for the Colour!” 烽火问鼎计划
Dates confirmed and ballot open for 2025 Trooping The Colour!
Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards will Troop their Colour on His Majesty The King’s Official Birthday, Saturday 14th June 2025. Taking part will be more than 1,350 soldiers from The Household Division and The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, including more than 300 musicians from the Massed Bands.
Trooping the Colour reviewed by His Majesty The King also includes 250 soldiers from the Foot Guards who will line the processional route along The Mall.
The ceremony of Trooping the Colour is believed to have been first performed during the reign of King Charles II, who was Monarch from 1660 to 1685. In 1748 it was decided that this parade would be used to mark the official birthday of the Sovereign and it became an annual event after George III became King in 1760. Guards taking part are drawn from the Regiments of the Sovereign’s Household Troops; it has become the practice for Regiments of Foot Guards to troop their Colour in turn.
THE BALLOT IS OPEN!!
For Trooping the Colour reviewed by His Majesty The King, seated tickets on Horse Guards Parade are allocated by ballot. This ballot is is now OPEN and will remain so until midday on 24th March 2025.
Entrants can apply for between 1 and 4 seated tickets. Successful entrants will be informed via email and invited to purchase their tickets from 25th March 2025.
Ticket prices are as follows:
Trooping The Colour – The King's Birthday Parade 14 June 2025
Seated: £30
Wheelchair (inc 1 companion): £30
Tickets for the Trooping The Colour Reviews will be available for purchase soon, and will be:
Trooping The Colour – The Major General's Review 24 May 2025
Seated: £10
Wheelchair (inc 1 companion): £10
Trooping The Colour – The Colonel's Review 7 June 2025
Seated: £15
Wheelchair (inc 1 companion): £15
Each parade begins at Horse Guards Parade at 10.30am and will finish by 12.25pm. On the day of the King’s Birthday Parade (14th June), a fly-past by the Royal Air Force will take place at 1.00pm, which can be watched from The Mall.
Click here to enter the ballot:
