{"id":49722,"date":"2020-06-14T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49722"},"modified":"2020-06-14T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T10:48:18","slug":"queen-elizabeths-official-birthday-marked-with-smaller-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/queen-elizabeths-official-birthday-marked-with-smaller-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth\u2019s official birthday marked with smaller ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3207\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Queen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"823\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Queen.jpg 380w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Queen-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/>Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s birthday is being marked Saturday with a smaller ceremony than usual, as the annual Trooping the Color parade is canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic.<br \/>\nThe extravagant display of pomp and pageantry, a highlight of the royal calendar that typically attracts thousands of tourists to line the streets of central London, has only been canceled once before during almost 70 years of the queen\u2019s reign \u2014 in 1955, during a national rail strike.<br \/>\nThis year, a small number of soldiers and military musicians will pay tribute to the monarch at Windsor Castle. The queen will receive a royal salute, which will be followed by military drills. Soldiers will march on the castle grounds in accordance with social distancing rules.<br \/>\nThe queen celebrated her 94th birthday on April 21, but her \u201cofficial\u201d birthday has always been marked with the Trooping the Color parade in June. The \u2018colors\u2019 refer to the flags representing the different regiments of the British Army.<br \/>\nThe event usually features hundreds of parading soldiers and horses, a carriage procession by the royal family, and a Royal Air Force flypast over Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/queen-elizabeths-official-birthday-marked-with-smaller-ceremony\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s birthday is being marked Saturday with a smaller ceremony than usual, as the annual Trooping the Color parade is canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic. The extravagant display of pomp and pageantry, a highlight of the royal calendar that typically attracts thousands of tourists to line the streets of central London, has only &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49723,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49722\/revisions\/49723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}