Editing Trooping the Colour (section)

====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>