Breaking: King Charles and Princess Catherine greet crowds for Trooping the Colour celebrations

Let's have a look at who's in the first carriage. It's interesting as well, the likes of William and Kate, we're all following ourselves in the news. These extraordinary stories of courage and bravery that they're tuned into as well. Now if my list is correct, this should be the Duchess of Edinburgh and Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Lawrence in this particular carriage. Also known as Edward and Sophie to the uninitiated. We still think of them, don't we, as the Wessex sisters. Edward's on horseback. He is on horseback. So let's just see when they turn. Is that the Duchess? It is, yes. So they are in the number one, I'm going to, is it Boruch carriage? So that is the... Boruch. Boruch carriage, yes. Father and sister in law, lovely. Yes, Duchess of Edinburgh, Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Lawrence, number one Boruch carriage. There we have the two Duchesses of Gloucester, yes. In number two Boruch carriage. He must be 80-odd now, Michael. He's around 80, yes. And still doing engagements. And the Boruch type of carriage is simply a carriage that has a cover that can be pulled over. You also, you might see an Ascot Landau, which is sometimes used as well on these occasions. And that is the carriage we are expecting next to contain, we believe, the Princess of Wales and probably the three children as well. We've said it before, haven't we, figures like Sophie Edinburgh and indeed the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester go about their daily lives, so they're doing their royal work, they don't have much fanfare, they don't get any publicity. Oh, some. And it's important, isn't it, their role, because the monarchy has naturally slimmed down much more considerably than the King ever planned, actually. Let's be perfectly honest with the departure of his brother, the former Duke of York, and indeed his son Prince Harry. So actually the role that they do in the background is really, really quite important. Yeah, and of course there was always speculation that Andrew Macbeth and Windsor's daughters, Beatrice and Eugenia, he always wanted them to join the civilians and to become working royals. That is now so out of the question, can it be? Absolutely. And also the King is, of course, privately funding their apartments within royal palaces. Which has caused some controversy in the last week. It has caused controversy, but also arguably it is his right, he is the monarch and it's his personal money. This isn't our money as taxpayers, this isn't part of the sovereign grant here. Nonetheless, it is arguably perhaps a bad look in some circles, given everything that's happened. These are the lifeguards just riding past the St James's Buckingham Palace. They're married women with successful husbands. Very rich husbands. And people thinking, why do they get a free apartment in the St James's Palace complex? Yes, but we will not expect them on the balcony of Buckingham Palace later for this bypass. It's only the working members of the royal family, as has been custom really since the pandemic really. Yes, although an affectionate kiss on the cheek between Prince William and his cousin, Princess Beatrice. But they do get on, I mean, this is the thing as well. Eugenie is very close to Harry and Meghan, isn't she? They were together quite shortly after I wrote the story about Harry and Meghan being an item. They're quite close in age too, of course. And there's a very close relationship, isn't there, between Prince William and Zara Tyndall. And Mike Tyndall, who gets along with all the rest of the royal family famously. On the apartments thing, what are we saying then? That really, if you're going to have an apartment at St James's Palace, you've got to be on the royal roster. You've got to be a working role rather than just a royal. I think a working role, yes. This is something that later on this year will be very uncomfortable for the royal family, because the Public Accounts Committee in Parliament, bearing in mind MPs usually do not discuss the workings of the royal household in Buckingham Palace, will be probing that report by the National Audit Office about why this appears to be the case that non-working members of the royal family have effectively free or very little rent apartments within royal houses. I can remember when they first moved into that apartment, it was around two because millions of pounds had been spent on public money renovating the apartment. Yes. It's just an opportunity for the anti-monarchists to really have a go. The reality is that the amount of money that is brought in by spectacles like this on tourism alone Look at them out there now. is enormous and pays for itself many times over. Is this another carriage? It does look to be. Cameron, who's next on the list do you think is going to come out? I think it's the Princess of Wales, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, if my list is correct. He will behave. They're always very well behaved. As a mum I do look at these major events and think how well behaved these children are and how in command of them Catherine is. It's a sight to behold because it's not easy. Of course they're a bit older now. I think when she had them as toddlers. That is His Majesty the King and the Queen in front. Interesting. Well, correct. Usually they do come out last. I'm not quite sure what's happened there. But I do have outfit details for Her Majesty the Queen. If you're interested, if I can find the right WhatsApp group. She looks like she's wearing red or pink from where I'm sitting. Is that because she wants to match with the Grenadier Guards perhaps? Yes, probably. Quite possibly. It's nice to see police constables in their tunics and white gloves as well. They used to all line the route dressed like that, but I'm not sure they all are now. Here we are. That is the Princess of Wales, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. I've now found the correct documents. The Queen is wearing a red silk crepe Grenadier Guards uniform dressed by Fiona Clare, a black beret with white plume and cap badge of the Grenadier Guards by Philip Treacy and the Grenadier Guards brooch. The Princess of Wales. I also have details for her outfits today. She is wearing a Catherine Walker dress. Is it white? A light green dress? Light green or light blue? Light blue. She's coming around there. Powder blue. Well, it's Catherine Walker, a hat by Philip Treacy and an Irish Guards brooch because, of course, she is Colonel of the Irish Guards. She is also wearing earrings by Cassandra Goad. So there are the outfit details for the royal women. And all the cameras clicking, people waving furiously. And the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh on horseback escorting His Majesty the King. They, of course, escorting his royal colonels. Princess Royal, Colonel of Blues and Royals, Prince of Wales, Colonel of the Welsh Guards and the Duke of Edinburgh, Colonel of the London Guards and the... And, Cameron, we can hear cheers from the crowd. And I think are they cheering the Princess of Wales? I think they are. I think they're cheering all the royals. I think they're cheering all of them. And the children. We've got Princess Charlotte there with a lovely bow in her hair. Yes. The King Immaculate. That blue is a lovely colour. Really lovely colour. And Prince George has grown a lot in the last six months. He has. He has shot up. He's almost as tall as his mother now. And his mother without heels on is 5'8". So I think he's close to that. As we were discussing earlier, he is 13 next month. And therefore, as any parent knows, you know, you have a boy in the house, you go through puberty and then you have a young man eating you out of house and home. Raiding the fridge every five minutes if my own son has anything to go for. And you have to look after him when you tell him off. Oh, my goodness. He's outgrown me. Hello, I'm Bev Turner. Now, it can feel like the money in our bank accounts at the moment does not keep up with the cost of living. And maybe there's a solution. I'm here today with the CEO of Tally Money, Cameron Parry. Cameron, what is Tally Money? Well, Bev, with Tally Money, you get a current account and a debit card. But instead of pounds, you use milligrams of gold as your everyday money. So why gold? Gold traditionally is a great store of value. It has, on average, gone up at over 11% per annum for the last 25 years against the pound. It's tripled in value in the last decade. And in the last two years alone, it's increased by 50% against the pound. Banks' savings products just can't compete with that level of growth. But this isn't just about gold. This is about a currency that you guys have created at Tally Money. Explain it to me as though I'm an idiot. So, look, people need to be able to hold their earnings and build their savings in a money that retains its value and remains in their legal control Great. You had me at not exposed to government control. You should feel safe and happy with your money. You should have peace of mind. The more money you see in your bank balance, and that's the type of thing we're trying to deliver, and give people choice in the type of money they get to use every day. Brilliant. Thank you so much, Cameron. Thank you. The King and Queen Camilla are arriving now. They'll have been escorted by the General Officer Command in London District, Lady General James Bowdoin. Just to point out, if anyone missed it earlier, that the Queen there is wearing the dress of the Grenadier Guards, so that's why she's also in red. Red is the theme of the day. It's the colour of the day, folks. And she is, of course, Colonel of the Grenadier Guards as well. And, of course, she's got a white plume because that's the white plume, no doubt, that she's emulating that the Grenadier Guards have in their bearskins. Yes. And I have full details of His Majesty the King's uniform. You were right, Michael. It is the Grenadier Guards uniform. The Sovereign wears the uniform of whichever regiment is being trooped. He is also wearing the Queen's Service Order Medal, the Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Medal, Silver Jubilee, Golden Jubilee, Diamond, Platinum, Long Service Good Conduct Medal of the Royal Navy, Canadian Forces Decoration, the New Zealand Commemorative Medal, and the New Zealand Armed Forces. They're very happy decorations. He is literally bristling with medals, isn't he? He is. And the Most Noble Order of Vergata sash. That's the blue sash, the Order of Vergata. And then when it comes to the uniforms of the other royals, so on horseback we have Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, we have the Prince of Wales, we have Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh. Does it vary from trooping to trooping? Well, not usually because the Prince of Wales will wear, invariably, will wear the Welsh Guards. He's Colonel, Royal Colonel of the Welsh Guards. The Princess Royal will, invariably, wear the Blues and Royals. And the Duke of Edinburgh will... He's Royal Colonel of the Scots Guards and also the London Guards, so I think he might alternate, but I suspect it's usually the Scots Guards, the Princess of Wales, Royal Colonel of the Irish Guards. And the senior military behind the Royal carriage there will include, for example, the Brigadier whose silver stick in waiting, behind Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, whose gold stick in waiting, and other very senior officers, some of whom are in cocktats. The third and fourth divisions of the Sovereign's Escort will be behind them. And there is an interesting point because right at the back of the royal procession are a couple of farriers, Andrew and Camilla and Cameron, and these are... They are the only two men that will have black plumes and they look very distinctive because they're the ones that had to dispatch, in quite a gruesome way, wounded horses on the battlefield and they carry axes. And they would kill the injured horse to put it out of its misery and then they would chop off its hoof because the serial number of the army horse is on the hoof. So, to prevent any fraud, they would chop the hoof off of the dead horse and keep it so they could then account for how many horses died on the battlefield. That's why they carry axes. When did that particularly culish tradition end, Michael? Well, it ended a very long time ago, let's put it this way. The axes that they're carrying are brand new today. Right. The axes that they carried before that were 100 years old and they were never used. I think probably the last time may have been World War I, but it was probably, I would suspect, the Boer War. But I should mention, actually, it was the Bell Foundry in Loughborough that put a huge amount of effort to make these new axes. They'll no doubt last another 100 years. Yeah, no doubt. Can we talk about some of the horses who are taking part in here? So, we have all together, how many horses do we have? About 200. 200. And where do they all come from? Where are they kept and how are they looked after, Michael? Well, most of them are from Ireland. So, King Charles II in 1661 gave an order that his horses should mostly be black and they are still now mostly kept black. There are some exceptions for his household troops. For example, the drum horses are often not black, often greys. But they are looked after very, very well and they're usually retired after about 15 years of age, something like that, and they have a very nice life. They are very, very well cared for. A trooper will spend about five hours preparing his horse. Wow. And four hours preparing himself. And five hours preparing the horse, what kind of preparations need to be made? I mean, I appreciate that the horses need to be groomed and dressed up, but do they also have to be prepared for a very long day for them, for out and about, with all of the crowds, to get used to crowds? Yes. Well, the funny thing is, Camilla, they enjoy it. The horses, it's well known by the riders that when some of the tunes that the horses really like are played, they recognise the tunes and their ears pick up. And they know they're on parade. These horses know they're on duty. They're carefully manicured, literally manicured. Their hooves are polished and they are really very carefully cared for. But what takes a lot of time is what's called the horse furniture, the saddlery and so on. The King's Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery, their saddlery is so special. When it was invented around 1900, it was put under the Official Secrets Act and it was only released from secret, its design was only released from secret in 2005 because it was so cleverly designed that they could control horses very well with it. So they really do look after their kit. Now, the King is currently reviewing his troops and it would be a mistake for anyone to think that he can't spot any errors. When the King is saluting there, and that is a way of saluting the rider there who's driving the carriage for the King. He uses his whip to salute in that way and touches the horse there to turn it. The King will spot any mistakes. Very, very few and they're so tiny that we wouldn't notice them. But if he notices anything, he'll mention it afterwards to the Major General. And the three horses behind the carriage containing the King green there is ridden by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal and the Duke of Edinburgh. And Michael, you mentioned that a number of the $200 horses, most of them come from Ireland. The three Royal horses, Prince of Wales riding Derby, the Princess Royal riding Noble, which was ridden by the King in 2023 and the Duke of Edinburgh is riding Sir John. They are gifted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Regiments. The Mounties have a long association with the Royal family of the horse dating way back to the Queen's coronation, Queen Elizabeth II of 1953. The first horse that was gifted was Burmese, the beloved Burmese, the Queen's horse in 1969. She adored Burmese. She adored that horse, yeah. And when it was when he retired, when Burmese retired the past year, was the late Queen stopped riding and she went into the carriage. So she could ride journeys in her spare time. Yes. The Queen is looking more military. She's from a military background herself. Her first husband as well, Andrew Barker Bowles, was in the military. And her father was decorated in the war. Yes, that's right. He was.