Editing Trooping the Colour (section)

===Summary of the parade design===
The entire parade is best understood as an exercise of several elements carried out in slow and quick march time, with the Trooping the Colour phase forming the centrepiece.

* The Sovereign inspects first the [[Foot Guards]] and then the [[Household Cavalry]] and [[King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery|King's Troop]], to slow and quick march music respectively.
* Then the massed bands "troop" before the Sovereign in slow and quick time. A lone drummer breaks away to no 1 Guard.
* Drummer's Call signals No. 1 Guard – the Escort for the Colour – to march to the centre of the field and obtain their colour from the Colour Party. The massed bands execute the "[[Spin Wheel]]" manoeuvre.
* As "Escort to the Colour", No. 1 Guard then slowly troops its regimental colour through the ranks of Guards Nos. 6–2.
* After forming divisions, Nos. 1–6 Guards march past the Sovereign in slow and quick time.
* To music from the mounted band, The King's Troop leads the Household Cavalry past the Sovereign, first in walk-march and then in sitting-trot (i.e., slow and quick time for the horses). The mounted band then salute the Sovereign as they walk off.
* Finally, led by the Sovereign's Escort, the massed bands play the Sovereign back to Buckingham Palace, the foot guards following, as the King's Troop leaves Horse Guards first to Green Park.