Trooping the Colour: Huw Edwards reveals ‘imprint of Prince Philip’

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Huw Edward’s led a stunning tribite to the life and legacy of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh at today’s Trooping the Colour. He explained how the “spirit” and “imprint” of the Duke can be felt all over Windsor Castle where today’s parade is taking place to mark the Queen’s official birthday. The Duke would have turned 100-years-old on Thursday June 10th.

Huw Edwards said: “Today we are of course celebrating the sovereign’s official birthday.

“The Royal family a few days ago would have been refelcting no doubt on another significant birthday.

“Because had he lived the Duke of Edinburgh would have been celebrating his 100th Birthday on the 10th June.”

And in a touching tribute, Mr Edwards said: “We are here at Windsor where really the fabric of the buildings and in many ways the spirit of the place bears the imprint of the Duke.”

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Royal expert and Daily Mail reporter Robert Hardman replied: “Eveything about this magnificant castle and the estate around it bares the Duke’s imprint.

“After the fire of ’92 it was the Duke who supervised the restoration, he was the ranger of The Great Park.

“He also loved this parade, 64 years he was a colonel, 22 years a colonel of the Welsh Guards and 42 years a colonel of the Grenadiers’

“He would have loved this and of course he will be in all our thoughts today.”

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The touching comments today mark the 35th anniversary the day a 20-year-old officer apprehended a suspected gunman after six shots were ‘fired’ at the Queen during Trooping of the Colour.

In 1981 Scots Guards Corporal Alec Galloway tackled teenage gunman Marcus Sarjeant, a gunman who fired “blank” starting pistol rounds at the Queen.

Mr Galloway recounted the story to Sky News saying: “The Queen was just going past on her horse and I heard six shots being fired and it was really as if it was real bullets.

“I looked round to my right and saw the gunman with the gun in his hand, so automatically I went towards the gunman and managed to grab him.”

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He explained: “I knocked the gun out of his hand, I pulled the gunman over the barrier and when I got him on the ground I used my boot to get him down… I apprehended him with my boot.”

Today’s Trooping of the Colour will be the first she attends without her late husband Philip.

Trooping the colour is usually celebrated near Buckingham Palace where the Household Division marches and carries a regimental flag, the ‘colour’. 

Today’s parade will see F Company Scots Guards Troop the Colour of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards through the ranks of guardsmen on parade.

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