of the event today, and as you can see to just approaching buckingham palace there. earlier king charles iii, who was taking part in his first trooping the colour as modern, was part of the military spectacle that marks his birthday, and he was riding on horseback earlier, and inspected the tubes at horse guards. inspected the troops. as you can see he is acknowledging the colour as it passes, as the parade passes him, and the event is going to be culminating very soon in a fly past over buckingham palace. the royal family is expected to turn out on the balcony there to watch from there, it is around that time that there, it is around that time that the crowds, huge crowds who are watching, will push forward down the mall to surround buckingham palace as the royal family appears on the balcony and watch the fly past. the fly past will include the red arrows, 70 aircraft and total flying through the skies, aircraft from the royal navy, british army and the royal navy, briti
place. you can see huge crowds there, waving union flags, and in the parade square stands themselves, 8000 people attended, allocated seats, which was done through a ballot. a quarter of a million people entered that ballot, 250,000, so those were the lucky 8000 who allocated seats in the stands earlier for the allocated seats in the stands earlierfor the parade allocated seats in the stands earlier for the parade square. allocated seats in the stands earlierfor the parade square. and the prime minister, rishi sunak, was watching along with prime ministers of some commonwealth states as well. that was the actual trooping the colour. a tradition that dates back to the days when flags were used as rallying points on the battlefield.