I’d pull the same
face as the Queen if I’d seen so many Trooping The Colours.
She’s attended
all bar one since her reign began, plus a good few before. That’s a lot of times
to watch the same procession. The novelty must have worn off in the late 1950s.
It’s not much of
a birthday celebration if it happens every year. No wonder she has two of them. It must
be hard to feign interest.
The last
eighty-eight years must be a blur of red, gold and black. They probably all
roll into one. The faces beneath the bearskins may have changed through the
decades, but not so much that she’d notice.
I bet she longs
for variety a little once in a while. If a guard’s hat falls off or a horse
shits in the square it must feel like a blessed release. Here's hoping Prince Phillip adds his own sotto voce commentary to spice things up.