{"id":636378,"date":"2026-06-13T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636378\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:59:11","slug":"trooping-the-colour-crowds-gather-near-buckingham-palace-ahead-of-kings-birthday-parade-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636378\/","title":{"rendered":"Trooping the Colour: Crowds gather near Buckingham Palace ahead of King&#8217;s birthday parade &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal fan travels from Seattle to watch the processionpublished at 09:06 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:06 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4b94d86e-eca1-4fe5-b625-4a5b231195a2.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Tinshui Yeung<br \/>Live reporter, at The Mall<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hello from The Mall &#8211; I\u2019m soaking up the sunshine here and I hope you\u2019re out there enjoying this beautiful day, too. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s still over an hour until the event kicks off, but people are already gathering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I\u2019ve just spoken to Corrigan Gommenginger, one of the first to arrive. He told me he was here at 04:00 today.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, he\u2019s come all the way from Seattle, Washington for the event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love the royal family. They do a lot of great things for the country. They inspire people to do good things for humanity and for the world,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No surprise at his enthusiasm &#8211; this isn\u2019t his first royal rodeo. He got his crown back at the coronation a few years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping to see the royal family and their carriages, and the horses, and the military today,&#8221; he tells me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Corrigan Gommenginger stands in a suit and holds the royal standard flag. He is wearing a plush novelty crown.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/055b8643-4d53-4af8-8842-88f2257acf00.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, BBC\/Tinshui YeungImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Corrigan Gommenginger snagged his crown at the King&#8217;s coronation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal fan travels from Seattle to watch the processionpublished at 09:06 BST 09:06 BST Tinshui YeungLive reporter, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}