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Jewels and Jewellery

The Queen’s Jewellery: Guards’ badge for Trooping the Colour

The Queen’s official birthday is marked by Trooping the Colour, a large-scale ceremony of music and military display. This year, it is going ahead but in a scaled-back form privately

Fri 12 June, 2020

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Spot the difference: the Household Divisions’ uniforms

The sight of guards posted outside royal palaces in and around London, dressed in their scarlet tunics and bearskin hats, is famous the world over, but do you know how

Fri 22 September, 2017

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Tell me about… Trooping the Colour

Each year, The Queen celebrates her official birthday with a huge parade of soldiers and music, known as Trooping the Colour. But what exactly is Trooping, where did it come

Thu 15 June, 2017