Editing Trooping the Colour (section)

==After the ceremony==
[[File:Royal family on the balcony.JPG|thumb|Balcony appearance by the royal family following the 2012 Trooping the Colour]]
[[File:Red Arrows June 2013.JPG|thumb|Red Arrows flypast after the ceremony, 15 June 2013]]

When the King returns to [[Buckingham Palace]], the first division of the Escort to the Colour forms into two detachments of the new guard and enters the forecourt, opposite the old guard; but unlike the usual [[King's Guard#Buckingham Palace, St James's Palace, and Tower of London|Changing of the Guard]], the Regimental Sergeant Major participates in the ceremony. The  remainder of the guards perform a march-past outside the gateway, in quick time instead of the usual slow time, with the King, positioned before the central gateway, receiving their salute. As the guards march past, their regimental marches are played by the massed and mounted bands respectively. The rest of the royal family observes the march-past from the balcony.

The King passes into the palace between the Old and New Guards, with both guards saluting him and the Royal Colonels. The usual semi-daily [[Guard Mounting|Changing of the Guard]] continues on the forecourt of the palace.

The gun salutes begin on the arrival of the King at Buckingham Palace, with the King's Troop firing a 41-gun royal salute in [[Green Park]] and the Honourable Artillery Company firing a 62-gun royal salute from the Tower of London grounds.

Finally, the King and the royal family on the palace balcony witness a [[flypast]] by the Royal Air Force, often featuring the [[Battle of Britain Memorial Flight]] and the [[Red Arrows]]. This is once again followed by the National Anthem and in special years, a [[feu de joie]] followed by the shouting of the three cheers to the King on behalf of the entire Household Division.