Trooping the colour 2020 tickets: how to get tickets for next year

Military pomp and pageantry is on display today to celebrate the Queen's official birthday with thousands of soldiers, musicians turning out to commemorate the monarch's 93rd

birthday. Senior royals are in attendance, including new mother the Duchess of Sussex made her first public appearance since giving birth. The Trooping the Colour ceremony sees some of

Britain's most prestigious regiments stage the centuries-old spectacle. HOW TO GET TICKETS FOR TROOPING THE COLOUR 2020 A select few seated tickets are available to royal fans wishing

to be close to the action for Trooping the Colour. Seated tickets are able to be purchased by online ballot only. This year, the online ballot closed on March 1, 2019, and successful entries

were selected and notified by March 31, 2019. After the seated ticket ballot closed, standing tickets were available to purchase. The price of tickets are £40.00 each for Trooping the

Colour Reviewed by Her Majesty The Queen The official website for the tickets is here however, the ballot has not yet opened for next year's event. For those who do not get tickets, you

can still see the parade by standing along the parade route on The Mall. You can also stand along the edge of St James’s Park overlooking Horse Guards Parade. However, these areas

notoriously get busy very quickly, so arriving early for a good spot is key.  WHAT IS TROOPING THE COLOUR? Trooping the Colour is social as well as a ceremonial occasion and in the stands

overlooking the parade ground were the wives, girlfriends and parents of the guardsmen and officers on parade. The event featured around 1,400 servicemen in total and hundreds of Guardsmen

were lined up on the parade ground waiting to be inspected by the Queen. The colour, or ceremonial regimental flag, being paraded this year was from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, a

frontline infantry regiment of the British Army when not performing ceremonial duties. Their lineage can be traced back to 1656 when the military unit was raised as the sovereign's

bodyguards by King Charles II while in exile in Bruges.