King Charles will have his first birthday as monarch marked by the title of Changing of the Guard and special gun salutes.
KingToday’s 74th birthday will see the Household Cavalry Band perform Happy Birthday during the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Salute guns will be fired across the capital for the first time in honor of his birthday, with the Royal Horse Artillery of the King’s Army firing 41 volts from midday in London’s Green Park.
Soon after, the Scots Guards Band will also perform Happy Birthday in the park.
The King’s Army is a ceremonial unit attached to the British Army that celebrates royal anniversaries and major events such as state visits, and provides a chariot. guns and a team of black horses for state and military funerals.
In 1827, the Military Council ordered 41 guns to be the Royal Salute when fired from one of the royal parks or the Tower of London.
An hour after the first 41-gun salvo, the Honor Artillery Company will fire 62 salutes at the Tower of London.
The number 62 marks 41 for the Royal Salute from a station in London and 21 points from the City of London.
Members of The King’s Troop Royal Artillery Fire a 41-gun Royal Welcome to mark the 96th birthday of King Charles’ mother, the late Queen Elizabeth
Charles is expected to mark his 74th birthday privately.
He became king upon the death of the Queen on 8 September and has since had a busy period.
As the Prince of Wales, he sometimes goes on official overseas business trips around his birthday and will celebrate overseas with a cake.
Queen Elizabeth II has celebrated two famous birthdays, one in the summer and one in the spring, and King Charles is expected to follow suit by announcing an official birthday in the spring.
King George II came up with the idea of celebrating a second birthday for the monarch because his actual birthday, like Charles’s, is in November, when the weather makes public celebrations like parades come into play. more difficult.
The king spent the day before his birthday leading the nation in honor its war dead in the annual Memorial Sunday service at Cenotaph.
Flowers in memory of the dead at the memorial in Whitehall have the words “Remember the glorious dead. Charles R”.
