A public celebration of the Queen's actual birthday.
The Queen celebrates her actual birthday on
21st April privately, but the occasion is marked publicly by gun salutes
in central London. However gun salutes are not fired on Sundays, so as
the date falls on a Sunday in 2013, the salute will take place the next
day, on Monday 22nd April. In central London there's a 41 gun salute in
Hyde Park at midday, a 21 gun salute in Windsor Great Park and a 62 gun
salute at the Tower of London, at 1pm. At Hyde Park the Queen's Birthday
Gun Salute is carried out by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery who
ride into the park from the north by Marble Arch along North Carriage
Drive, line up abreast and gallop down the parade ground to roughly
opposite the Dorchester Hotel. The Troop itself arrives at around
11.45am ready to fire the first round at midday. The guns are then
unhooked and the salute is fired off. Duty performed, the horses gallop
back up towards North Carriage Drive. The band arrives separately and
can usually be seen from about 11.30am. It is a spectacular show of pomp
and ceremony and it's also the only time when you will see horses
legally at a full gallop in Hyde Park - with a ton and a half of cannon
in tow! The Queen's Birthday Gun Salutes are held in celebration of her
actual birthday, ahead of her official birthday in June which is marked
by Trooping the Colour.
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