Preceding the King’s Procession, by 10 minutes, is the Major General’s Retinue which provides a ceremonial confirmation that the route is safe and secure, known as Proving the Route.Īt 10.20am, the King’s Procession departs Buckingham Palace, arriving at the abbey 33 minutes later, at 10.53am. The Procession will be led by 48 horses and musicians of the Household Cavalry Mounted Band, with their two distinctive drum horses Atlas and Apollo. Their Majesties will be escorted to Westminster Abbey by the Sovereign’s Escort, which has been performing this function since 1660 and is made up of four Divisions from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.Įach Division consists of 24 horses, with two Divisions of the Blues and Royals at the front and two Divisions of the Life Guards bringing up the rear, with the Farriers, equipped with their distinctive axes, in the rear rank.
They will give a Royal Salute when the front wheel of the Diamond Jubilee State Coach passes the Centre Arch of Buckingham Palace. Uniformed civilian services, including police and fire service personnel, will line Whitehall and Parliament Square, with the Royal Air Force around the Cenotaph and Westminster Abbey.Ī Tri-Service Guard of Honour of nine officers and 159 other ranks from the Navy, Army and RAF will be positioned at the west side of the Queen Victoria Memorial with a band of the Royal Marines. The troops will stand at "five-pace extend" - a soldier every five paces - something which has not been achieved since the 1980s.Īt The Mall, there will be 25 half companies from the Foot Guards in their distinctive red tunic and bearskin.Įight half companies of The Royal Navy and Royal Marines will line up at Admiralty Arch, the spiritual home of the Navy, in the shadow of the statue of Admiral Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Phase 2: Lining the routeįrom 9.10am, a total of 55 half companies of 20 service men and women will line the Ceremonial Route. The troops taking part in the day’s events will be brought into London from four training bases known as Concentration Areas. Two of the most complicated moments will be when the processions pass through Admiralty Arch and turn sharp right into Whitehall, and later arrive back at Buckingham Palace.Īt these pinch points, the troops have to go from 12 to 15 ranks wide to just six in order for them to get through Admiralty Arch and the palace's north centre gate, deploying what the commanders describe as “a bit of ceremonial drill magic”. The day will be divided into eight principal phases, from bringing troops to London and lining the route through to the ceremonial processions and the final dispersal of personnel. “It will be spectacular and with the precision and detail you would expect.”
Underpinning the procession accompanying Their Majesties to Westminster Abbey and back to Buckingham Palace will be the ability of serried ranks of service personnel to negotiate the sharp angles, street furniture and tight spaces of the ceremonial route through central London.įor weeks, those taking part have been rehearsing their manoeuvres using traffic cones to mark out structures such as Admiralty Arch along the 1.3-mile route being taken by the King and Queen.Ī Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesman said: “We have been planning the operation for six months, and with the military deployed for approximately six hours a day, it works out as one month of planning for every hour on parade. Hours of repeated practice will culminate on Saturday in one of the most impressive military spectacles in generations as 7,000 ceremonial troops take part in the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla. "Standard is our only rotating format, and while keeping it fresh is important, we also feel that there's a more effective middle ground.It will all depend on precision, discipline and not a little of what the military call “ceremonial drill magic”. "Time and again, we hear that players want to play with cards they love and enjoy longer," Forsythe writes. The first is to give Standard more longevity. Magic: The Gathering's vice president of design, Aaron Forsythe, explained the two reasons for making this change in a post on the official Magic: The Gathering website. Why did Wizards of the Coast change Magic: The Gathering's Standard rotation? Magic: The Gathering Arena (which comes to steam this month and possibly consoles later this year) will follow the same Standard rotation change, though the MTG Arena-only Alchemy format will not. The Magic: The Gathering expansion sets Innistrad: Crimson Vow, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, and Streets of New Capenna, which were expected to rotate out of Standard with Wilds of Eldraine's debut, will instead rotate out of Standard in 2024.
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