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Photograph of Queen Elizabeth II as Colonel In Chief with Grenadier Guards Officers holding senior appointments on The Queen’s Birthday Parade, Saturday 16th June 1984. Her Majesty poses for the image in the middle of a line of Grenadier Guards officers, including her husband Prince Philip, who is the Colonel of the regiment. All are on horseback, and all are wearing the regiment’s full dress with scarlet tunic and bearskin cap. The Queen in wearing a different style of headwear with a white plume. A large building in behind them. They are named as (from left to right): Maj James Tedder, Regimental Adjutant; L/Col George West, Equerry in Waiting to The Queen; L/Col Sir John Johnston, Equerry in Waiting to The Queen; His Royal Highness the Colonel - Prince Philip; Her Majesty the Queen, Colonel in Chief; Col Andrew Duncan, L/Col Commanding the Regiment; L/Col Alexander Heroys, Commanding Officer 1st Battalion; L/Col John O’Connell, Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion; Capt Charles Bolton, Adjutant 1st Battalion; Capt Grant Baker, Adjutant 2nd Battalion. From an album of 63 photographs of the Grenadier Guards showing parades, training, Royal inspections and group images, taken in Germany, Cyprus and the UK, 1980-89.

Trooping the Colour (Ceremonial Events)