Trooping the Colour - Windsor training 2008

[Bandeto]

Thank you for the video.

Excellent quality and commentaries!

[dandare1970]

Hiya , this takes me back, im ex-Grenadier Guards, served my time 1990 to 1996, you start training for the troop around march time, all starts in the barracks on the drill square at 9am everyday up to the day of the troop, weekends of thou :) having 3/4 main full dress rehersals in london in front of the top nobs before the day, like 4/5 am in morning before every1 is up, done 3 troops myself.

Anyway thanks for the vid tolk me back :)

[takethestreetcarhome]

This is beautiful! Thanks :D

[chocolatcats]

nice video and I'm sooooooooo jealous of you for having the privledge of "hearing all them cute guys practicing" well done

[kapasigan17]

thanks for sharing martinpittard, it reminded me few years ago how hard to organize an event back in our alma mater. As an alumnus was task to orchestrate and precisely execute drills by our highschool cadets parade especially you have a high VIP guest visiting your school for the first time and never done before by any school whatsoever. We have to rehearse on exact time from start to finish of that event. A good practice makes perfect.

[martinpittard]

Thanks kapasigan17. We did see a few cases of poor chaps getting confused. Of course, the drill sergeant didn't let them forget it.

[martinpittard]

Thanks for the comment 01MarchHare.  It was rather serendipitous that we caught it too. Windsor has a habit of surprising you!

[thepigofhappiness]

@martinpittard i found the exact same thing when i was living in London :) wonderful video, i had no idea that they practiced lining up like that

[01MarchHare]

I didn't know they practiced for it in Windsor. Of course, the Long Walk makes a perfect replacement to the Mall for the street liners to practice on. This would be before the Major General's Review, which is the 'full dress rehearsal' as it were of the Trooping the Colour, along with the Colonel's Review.

A really nice little video and it was just a few days after I took some visiting Germans to Windsor to show them the Changing of the Guard. Alas.