Queen's 90th birthday celebrated with guided tours of royal history

City of Westminster Guide Lecturers’ Association will trace the British monarchy from its earliest days
Highlight: the walks will go to Horse Guards Parade, where the elaborate Trooping the Colour is the centrepiece of the Queen’s official birthday
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Robert Jackson12 April 2016

The Queen’s 90th birthday is being celebrated with a series of guided walks through London’s royal history.

They will trace the British monarchy from its earliest days when William the Conqueror rode into town for his coronation and had the celebrating crowd slaughtered as he thought it was an uprising, through to the present at Buckingham Palace.

The walks by the City of Westminster Guide Lecturers’ Association will also pass the Banqueting House where Charles I was executed in 1649 and carry on through Horse Guards Parade where the elaborate Trooping the Colour is the centrepiece of the Queen’s official birthday.

Walkers will also be shown statues of the Queen’s mother and father and learn how love for an American divorcee changed the face of the monarchy. The story of how a shy and retiring man overcame his disability to lead his country in its greatest hour of need will also be told – the subject of the hit film The King’s Speech starring Colin Firth.

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After visiting the other royal palaces along the Mall the walk concludes at Buckingham Palace, the monarch’s London home since 1837.

Each walk starts opposite the Palace of Westminster, is about two hours long, and is led by a qualified Westminster guide with commentary at each of the 11 stops. They start on Saturday April 16 and end on Friday April 22.

Tickets cost from £10 per person to £25 for a family. To book go to eventbrite.co.uk.

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