Editing Trooping the Colour (section)

===Broadcast===
Trooping the colour was first broadcast by [[BBC Radio]] in 1927 with a commentary by Major J. B. S. Bourne-May, a retired officer of the [[Coldstream Guards]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/story/74833 |title=BBC Radio Broadcast Trooping the Colour |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=www.iwm.org.uk |publisher=Imperial War Museums |access-date=11 June 2024}}</ref> It was first shown on [[BBC Television]] in 1937.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/entries/5874fb19-fb44-4d9e-8de4-8984c077b0d4 |title=Coming to You Live – The Origins of Outside Broadcast Television |last=Martin |first=Andrew |date=16 August 2020 |website=BBC |access-date=11 June 2024}}</ref>

The parade is witnessed by a global TV audience of many millions.  Over the years, commentary for the annual live broadcast in the UK by [[BBC1]] has been provided by [[Huw Edwards]] and also by [[Clare Balding]], together with expert guests and interviews with some of the personnel involved.  The BBC's live broadcast has become accessible to an international audience via live streaming on [[BritBox]] in both the United States and Canada.  The BBC also streams it live on YouTube beginning with the 2019 edition.

For the Platinum Jubilee in 2022, additional live videos commentary of the parade for international viewers were provided by [[Sky News]] UK and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' newspaper's YouTube channels.

====Sovereign's participation====
[[File:Queen Elizabeth II & The Duke of Edinburgh.JPG|thumb|Queen Elizabeth II with the [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Duke of Edinburgh]] at Trooping the Colour, June 2012]]
Queen Elizabeth II attended Trooping the Colour in every year of her reign, except in 1955 when the event was cancelled due to a national rail strike. Having ridden her mare [[Burmese (horse)|Burmese]] between 1969 and 1986, the Queen rode in a carriage from 1987. On 13 June 1981, she and her horse were startled by an unemployed youth, [[Marcus Sarjeant]], who fired six blank rounds from a starting revolver.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/13/newsid_2512000/2512333.stm 1981: Queen shot at by youth] at [[BBC]] 'On this day' – 13 June</ref>  
In her years attending on horseback, the Queen, as Colonel-in-Chief, rode [[sidesaddle]] and wore a [[biretta]] and a Guards Regiment uniform with the medals she was awarded before becoming Queen ([[Order of the Crown of India]]; [[Defence Medal (United Kingdom)|Defence Medal]]; [[War Medal 1939–1945]]; [[King George V Silver Jubilee Medal]]; [[King George VI Coronation Medal]]; [[Canadian Forces' Decoration]]) and the riband and star of the [[Order of the Garter]], the [[Order of the Thistle]] or a combination of those orders, depending which regiment was trooping its colour. From 1987 she did not wear uniform, but wore the Brigade of Guards badge.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}

[[File:Trooping the Colour 2023 02.jpg|thumb|right|King Charles III (left), in the uniform of the Welsh Guards, is followed by [[William, Prince of Wales]], [[Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh]] and [[Anne, Princess Royal]] in 2023.]]
Her 80th birthday in 2006 was marked by a large [[flypast]] of 40 planes led by the [[Battle of Britain Memorial Flight]] and culminating with the [[Red Arrows]]. It was followed by the first [[feu de joie]] ("fire of joy") fired in her presence during her reign, a second being fired at her Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012. In 2008, a flypast of 55 aircraft commemorated the [[RAF]]'s 90th anniversary.<ref>[https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/0/AEFEBF94A52DB71380257467004AD5F1 Wired Gov article about the RAF 90 flypast at Rooping the colour] – Accessed 31 Maty 2022</ref>

In 2023, at the first Trooping the Colour of [[Charles III]] as king, he revived the tradition of the sovereign riding on horseback and in uniform. The flypast of some 70 aircraft was a reprise of the display originally intended for the [[Coronation of Charles III and Camilla|coronation]], which had been curtailed due to poor weather.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/first-trooping-colour-parade-britains-king-charles-2023-06-17/ |title=First 'Trooping the Colour' parade for Britain's King Charles |last=Young |first=Sarah |date=17 June 2023 |website=www.reuters.com |publisher=Reuters |access-date= }}</ref>