Trooping the Colour 2011 -Highlights- [HD]

[@carnac767]

Thanks for posting. Great stuff. I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy but am very proud of my British heritage and the British military. My cousin is a retired RSM. The assertion that 80% of the American military on parade have never served is patently absurd.

[@farouk02382]

Thank you for these highlights... A remarkable event with all the pagentry!!

[@onionanon]

As an ex-soldier (1st Batn Duke of Wellingtons Regt) I can truly say that after the wars we are currently engaged in are ended and the medals have been handed out and we fade into the background of the British peoples minds Her Majesty will still be there for us, just like she has always been there for us. We love Queen Bess because we know she loves us. I swore my oath of loyalty to her more than 25 years ago and it means as much to me now as it did a lifetime ago as an 18 year old lad.

[@HugoDBPHuguenot]

I've been laughing non-stop since reading your post... "had the good taste to win their wars, largely due to the efforts of those gentleman in the red coats." Priceless! Respect is due!!

[@kasha1932]

This is wonderfully GLORIOUS! There is something so uniquely special about these great traditional events there in Great Britain. I love TRADITIONS! Makes me feel very, very grounded and secure. That's my humble opinion, of course .God Save The Queen! I love watching her in her younger days on horseback herself!!

[@margaretmcclurkin868]

My late Father was a Coldstream Guard who became part of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade. Doesn't get better than that.

[@alfredoontiveros6504]

From the very first moment, i lost my breath. That's excellence.

[@MrSpringer75]

Einfach großartig ich beneide die Briten für solche Paraden und Aufmärsche..

[@AdamHWarren]

My German Uebersezer colleagues are among my most congenial colleagues, good team players, helpful and fun to be with. So don't be ashamed of being German. John Donne says "For each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main", and I'm glad as a British citizen to be part of that complex jigsaw puzzle called Europe - with such countrymen as you!

[@pauloman16]

Great tradition. Wonderfull to look at. Best of luck to the troops!

[@43mrssimba]

I watched this beautiful video.I have the CD and unfortunalely the DVD is not available in my country.So...thanks a lot for posting:)

[@yanayrton]

Bravo!!! The Music as a great unifier and purifier to the souls. Queen Elisabeth God is proud of you. Yan Ay, young classical cpmposer.

[@IRememberTheOldDays]

@TheRawke I love watching the Grossen Zapfenstreich and Ive also watched the inaugural ceremonies of Karl-Theodore zu Guttenburg and Gerhard Schroder. Damn thats some fine parading, you need to do it more often! Your traditions are lovely! Id love to move to Kiel at some point

[@MrPeperidge]

Escort to the colour is surly my favourite of all the songs played in this one.

[@nrjelley]

I'm Welsh, so obviously the Welsh Guards are my favourite, however I do love the march tunes of the Coldstream Guards!

[@Sauerland39]

Like it very much....... god ave the queen..... greets from germany.....

[@emptyangel]

Amazing! Thanks.

[@tghan11]

Beautiful colors and Pretty Awsome !

[@nrjelley]

Just like to pay tribute to a couple of my fellow countrymen Cpl Michael John Thacker, 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh (who was from my hometown), Capt Stephen Healey, Royal Welsh, L/Cpl Lee Davies, First Battalion Welsh Guards. All have died in the past few weeks, RIP all!

[@hva1967]

FANTASTIC********

[@Xares87]

thx winnie, great video!!!

[@1stearlofflaxman]

Nobody does it better. Trite, maybe, but impossible to deny. Regular as clockwork, someone says, but ask the Troops. Their pride shines through.

[@martialmusic]

Winnie you post great stuff Bob M Sugar Land TX

[@ronsiris]

wonderful

[@chunkylover48]

Very reassuring...

[@MultiZuluking]

Oh thank you mate!

[@AlexanderRuin]

Well said. It's certainly important for a nation to have their nobility and honor represented. Sadly, we over in Hungary, Austria, and Germany don't get to keep such traditions much anymore. The 20th century was not good to us lol.

[@horselips]

The intense love affair between the Crown and Military is both heartwarming and most reassuring. For those who object to the retention of the monarchy - those guys in the black fur caps and red coats would like to have a word with you. The guys on the big black horses might want to add their 2 cents too. Good luck.

[@ronsiris]

spend a lifetime in an office or factory,or to be 18 again,and become a soldier,and god willing, in old age to say,i was once a warrior.

[@Ralle1968]

sehr imponierend

[@TheAwp45]

I agree. If they returned to their thrones, the world would be an even more magnificent place to live in.

[@jamesroberts3016]

(Wiping tears from my eyes as I watch this) . May God Save our Gracious Queen , and remember, in His Mercy, Her forbears and all of Our honoured dead, both UK and Commonwealth, who helped Democracy to triumph over Evil, From WWI through Afghanistan. .

[@emptyangel]

Oh my, to hear the Massed Bands play 'The Glaswegian' is literally, for a lack of a better expression, music to my ears.

[@Damnblastify]

You're welcome to come live here :-)

[@IRememberTheOldDays]

The German's seem to love us! They broadcast this every year!

[@HarryHazz]

@zeeman512 The Grenadier Guards stay at Waterloo barracks, London. I don't know where the rest stay, but the reason they ''march and randomly stamp their feet when they are on the guard at the palace'' is them patrolling and also gets the blood flowing.

[@gavsky23]

From the dust of Afghanistan to the (sometimes) dusty Horse Guards Parade. Such a shame the Guards Division has lost so many injured and killed.

[@Winnie9212]

@Huithapeli You're right. Thanks.

[@andyrick123]

We have a longer history of being friends and allies than the sad years when our countries were torn apart.

[@IeneMieneMutte10]

With all do respect to the British and your Queen Elizabeth II, I do prefer the more easy going, true festive and "royal approachable" way we celebrate our queen's birthday here in the Netherlands. Cheers!

[@kealyc1]

Both English and German originate from the Middle East originally. Germans would love to believe that the English language originated in a village south of Hannover. Sorry to disappoint you, Heinrich.

[@lonestar2779]

look at the thin red line, (2:50) amazing thing to see

[@1987brick]

@sabaton1231 You're dead wrong. I'm an aircraft mechanic in the USAF and I worked with someone who was in Tops in Blues a couple years back. They only do the "band or show" gig for a couple years then they go back to their regular job in the military.

[@logitechg20]

kannst du vll ne liste von den märschen in die beschreibung hinzufügen? :) ansonsten super video, wie immer!

[@etamlous]

I do all the time!

[@horselips]

Indeed. His Most Catholic Majesty King Juan Carlos is a Bourbon. God bless him.

[@horselips]

Indeed. King Juan Carlos "The Brief" has long outlasted all the talking heads that predicted his swift demise. Long Live His Most Catholic Majesty.

[@granskare]

only the British are capable of putting on a show like this!

[@SILVERCLOUD141]

Fantastic Best of British God Save the Queen

[@Geheimagent008]

@Winnie9212 but the qualitiy is not 720p at all...? R. P.

[@cosmictimes]

If you were a regular, you would notice it happens every year, at the exact same spot, with the exact same shoes.

[@RegimentalBlackGuard]

06:44 His left foot slips just a little and only just kept his balance hahaha poor guy musta felt terrible :P

[@lonestar2779]

my old Reg, Go the Blues

[@TheAustralianArmy]

Fucking spectacular! True show of discipline and training!

[@lkrambar]

The Bourbons are still reigning in Spain...

[@SILVERCLOUD141]

God Save the Queen!

[@Dayepipes]

"One of these things is not like the others." 22:35.

[@GuyLyddonable]

Anybody else find it a bit wierd how into the royals our friends in the Bundesrepublik are?

[@Winnie9212]

@matthewthecoolkid Slow march from the opera "Norma" by Vincenzo Bellini.

[@horselips]

We have the Windsors, but where are the Hapsburgs, Bourbons, Savoys, Hohenzollerns and Romanovs now that we need them the most?

[@TheRawke]

@IRememberTheOldDays Some do. Mainly because we don't have a monarch anymore. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for being a republic, but we are surrounded by monarchies. The Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, Belgium...and Britain's not that far away either. I enjoy watching military parades, which is something we simply don't have in Germany anymore. Once in a while when a president (or, recently, the Minister of Defence) resigns there's an event that's broadcast, but other than that...

[@cosmictimes]

English is a Cheese Cake. The crusty base is Germanic, but the expressive, colourful upper-part is Romanesque (Because of the Normans from France, who weren't even French originally, but Vikings from Scandinavia)

[@vassilistzaferis4277]

cosmictimes The Normans were French culturally by the time they arrived in Britain and no more than 1/8 Norse in terms of blood origins.

[@Huithapeli]

Der Marsch der beginnt am 20:31 heisst "Moray Firth" und der Marsch am 30:41 heisst einfach "The Royals".

[@0404alan]

@MIRETNAVY They would not be unemployed. They are all combat troops. The 1st battaloin Scots Guards whiose colour is being trooped, have in fact just returned from Afghanistan.

[@theshow2k8]

I remember reading that quote and i don't believe that it involved ''American equipment'' or ''Canadian soldiers''.It definitely however involved German generals and British soldiers.

[@ThomasWilliams89]

the Spanish branch of the Bourbons are still hanging around.

[@cosmictimes]

Your from Austria. Should the Red Bull not now be your national emblem?

[@Kunstbettyy]

Lieschen von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha macht einen guten Job

[@TheAustralianArmy]

Oi! Don't forget the Blues and Royals! (The guys with blue coats and red plumes instead of red coats and white plumes) lol :)

[@SILVERCLOUD141]

If I had Canadian Soldiers, American technology and British officers I would rule the world." Winston Churchill

[@PxChAoS16]

9:16 didn't know wayne rooney was in the army o_O (towards the left and middle)

[@TheAwp45]

I laughed too much at that comment.

[@HMservant]

What is the slow march at roughly 3:30?

[@cosmictimes]

It's you're not your. Plus, I was merely stating a fact with a person of the German tradition.

[@transonicbuoy]

@CaptainGrimes1 Not a regt. A battalion.

[@Talbot6832]

@madboyfull Lol, Brazilian, your 20 minutes of history says it all.

[@JoeBarnes95]

@zeeman512 lucky man

[@AlexanderRuin]

Well, the whole 'we lost two world wars' thing certainly isn't helping us Axis. But hey, it's all part of our history, I'm sure we Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians will find our culture once again, it just takes time.

[@etamlous]

Somewhat boring; they're just marching in circles like it's a kindergarten parade. I think the Russian army has the best ceremonial marches and music that pumps your heart when you hear them.

[@plusquamperfekt1957]

bei der Bundewehr fehlen einfach bunte Uniformen und Pferde

[@Myles0Harcourt]

@MIRETNAVY Maybe an exit from the EU and a cut in our foreign aid budget would be a good start.

[@simranjeet36]

They weren't always Windsors, first it was Hannover then Saxe-Coburg Gotha then Windsor

[@shedcastle]

Gawd bless 'er!

[@VvvVANONYMOUSVvvV]

nothing like the trooping the colour with a german over the top of it

[@Nemecross]

did anybody watch this after the north korean's hell march and think this was kinda crap compared?

[@nrjelley]

@Nemecross The British Army eats North Korenas for breakfast!

[@1987brick]

@GuyLyddonable It's because they don't have royals of their own anymore. This makes the Brits the envy of the world.

[@CaptainGrimes1]

@Nemecross This isn't our entire army but one regiment. Our army is out fighting real wars not crying over Kim Jung Very ill

[@cosmictimes]

You can have the Queen. She's half German.

[@donmigueldecuenca]

horselips, no one has EVER needed the Savoys....and as for the Romanovs...well, just what WERE they, exactly? As for the rest, I share your regret.

[@cosmictimes]

Come back this time next time and the same thing will happen again. It's as regular as clockwork.

[@nightwish1000]

@JesusfreakMS man muss halt irgendwann damit anfangen! auch in 100 jahren wird es für bestimmte leute als militaristisch gelten!

[@TheLloydA1]

@Nemecross No

[@tom24239891]

you may want to remove England and put the United Kindome 75%of those on parade are Scottish

[@DubFocus89]

ENGLAND!? . . . . . . the welsh, scots and irish not included nope?

[@MultiZuluking]

oh god i wish i was british but no im a german

[@bernardmburu6761]

20:31

[@Myles0Harcourt]

If the Republicans gat their way, all this would be gone.

[@TheRawke]

@GuyLyddonable Well, you did your part in killing off our monarchy, so we might as well enjoy yours. Also, never forget - the royal family's name wasn't always Windsor...

[@Salvor_Hardin_42]

...and English is a Germanic language, herp derp.