The Queen will celebrate her official birthday today with Trooping the Colour and a flypast over Buckingham Palace.
The annual military parade, which always takes place on a Saturday in June, has special significance for Her Majesty’s 90th birthday. Some 1,500 soldiers, 400 horses and 200 musicians will march in front of her, watched by thousands of spectators.
It is a demonstration of respect and affection by the military to their Commander-in-Chief.
The head of the British military, speaking exclusively to Sky News, said there is nothing like it.
"I invite many of my international opposite numbers to come along to bear witness to Trooping of the Colour and they are blown away,” General Sir Nick Houghton, told me.
"It's not something that can be emulated anywhere else that I know in the world. It is the Tina Turner if you like, Simply The Best."
"It's not something that can be emulated anywhere else that I know in the world. It is the Tina Turner if you like, Simply The Best."
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