go to cnn's anna stewart who is at buckingham palace for us. anna, take us through the day. what are we expecting to see here? >> reporter: well, you can probably already hear the military band behind me. this is just getting ready. the soldiers are taking their positions in the parade and the next big thing we expect to see, of course, is king charles and queen camilla leaving palace. they will go down where the trooping of the colour is taking place. this is an old ceremonial position. it's taken place for 200 years. you can't better monarchs having birthdays that are conducive to parades in terms of weather. the coronation five weeks ago, the rain really did ruin the parade to some extent. today the weather is beautiful. the sun is shining. potentially a little bit hot for all of those soldiers in their thick woolly tunics and the big bear skin hats. there were some faints during the rehearsal. hopefully not today. this will be a long procession and then quite a long ceremony. the trooping the colour dates back to when regiments will need to show their regimental flag and

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anna stewart standing by as we see the king, the queen, and the royal family there. the working royals. anna, just explain what we're seeing here. i can see in another shot, the flypast. >> yeah. what you're seeing here is a much more extended royal family in the balcony than perhaps we were expecting. this is as the flypast goes past. quite a spectacle. also quite noisy. on that balcony, you are seeing the king, you are seeing the queen, you are seeing the prince and princess of wales, all three children pointing at that flypast. you can see the duke and duchess of edinboro. that fly past, 70 aircraft from all over the uk joining together and culminating in this magical moment. a flypast over buckingham palace. it's particularly significant, if you can remember a few weeks ago for the coronation, the flypast couldn't happen. it had to be scaled down because of the weather. i believe now we may be about to get the red arrows. let's listen in. it's pretty noisy. not the red arrows yet. more aircraft. >> you're describing the red arrows. tell our audience what that is.

anna stewart has more. >> reporter: prices are still rising in the eurozone, but month on month, they are heading in the right direction. with a fall in inflation across a broad range of categories, food inflation dropped by 1 percentage point in may compared to april, although it remains high at 12.5%. and at this early stage, it is unlikely households and consumers across the block are feeling much benefits from this improvement. while the glimmer of good news caused some economists to question whether the european central bank might ease up on its rate hikes, the general consensus is that there will be a rate rise this month and another to come this year. not least after ecb president christina lagarde spoke about the determination to bring inflation down to 2% in a speech in hanover thursday adding that we've made clear that we still have ground to cover to bring interest rates to sufficiently restricted levels. one other headwinds for the ecb is wage growth in the eurozone. unsurprisingly given how costly life has become thanks to inflation, workers have demanded higher wages. wa

and live to anna stewart outside buckingham palace. coronation, much better weather there, what can we expect to see in the coming hours? >> reporter: yeah, we can hope actually the rain won't ruin the parade as it slightly did for the coronation. which extraordinarily was only a few weeks ago, five weeks ago, i think, by my count. today will be similar in some respects, you will see lots of pomp and ceremony, lots of soldiers and of course it will be smaller, though, in terms of how many troupes there are, 1,500, and 300 horses, much smaller than the coronation. and also the procession route is a little shorter. what we'll see in about half an hour is his majesty the king leaving buckingham palace here in a procession down the mile and through the parade where he will inspect the troops and you see the trooping of the color. this year it's the welsh guards. the colonel is prince william, the prince of wales, added specialty i guess we'll get to see him play a key role here and i'm joined by our wonderful guest, and what are you most e

cnn's anna stewart has more from buckingham palace. >> reporter: one of the parts of being a british a second official birthday, and one marked with a parade like no other. this was king charles' first trouping the color, he left buckingham palace for the procession on horseback, a site none seen for nearly 40 years and wearing the regimental uniform of the welsch guards. cheers from the crowd who gathered on the mall. also for the royals that followed. close behind, prince william, now the prince of wales, and also a welsch guard uniform, as he is the regiment's colonel now, a position he inherited from his father, he was joined by princess ann and the duke of edenboro in their respective uniforms. behind in the carriage, the queen camilla the princess of wales, with the ultimate crowd cheering trio of george, charlotte and louis. and it focuses on the british army. the five reg meants of the foot guards, they take times to troupe their color each year, along with the king escort. >> the "national anthem" played as the king received his final salute, marking the end of the ceremony.

cnn's anna stewart has more. >> reporter: one of the perks of being a british monarch is having a secondbirthday and one marked with a parade like no other. this was king charles' first trooping the colour. he left buckingham palace, a sight not seen in nearly 40 years, wearing the regimental uniform of the welsh guards, the flag being trooped this year. cheers from the crowds. also for the royals that followed close behind, prince william, mouse prince of wales, also in welsh guard uniform as he is the regiment's colonel now, a position he inherited from his father. he was joined by princess anne and the duke of edinburgh. queen camilla, princess of wales, with the ultimate crowd-pleasing trio of princes george, louis, and princess charlotte. this military ceremony focuses on the five regiments of the foot guards trooping their closh each year with the two household cavalry regiments. the national anthem played as the king received his final salute marking the end of the ceremony and the return of his majesty to buckingham palace. guns sounded across london before the king and other mem

anna stewart outside of buckingham palace. we're waiting to see the royal family.ning now. >> as you can probably hear, there are some loud noises behind me because a 41-gun salute just started behind us in honor of the king's official birthday. not his official birthday, monarchs get not one but two. monarchs like to celebrate their birthday with the trooping of the color, an old tradition that takes place in the summer, hopefully the rain won't ruin the parade, and it hasn't today. the end of this celebration, you will see king charles and hopefully other members of the royal family on the balcony of buckingham palace where they will be able to appreciate a fly pass of 70 aircraft from the various units of the british armed forces who are joining together and then flying through london. this is extra special. you may remember a few weeks ago for the coronation, it was not particularly nice weather. the rain did ruin that parade and the fly pass got scaled down. finally we'll have that glorious moment, that gun salute that is so powerful. that's happening in green

anna stewart, while riding through windsor forest about 40 km from london, noticed a suitable place forhe village of ascot gave the name to the new hippodrome, where on august 11 of the same year the first races were organized since the popularity of the five-day event under royal patronage is steadily growing, it is currently growing , it gathers more than half a million spectators the entire top of the english nobility strives here, as they say, to show themselves and to look at others unspoken while they could, perhaps the main highlight of the action, the entire audience at the entrance is strictly evaluated by special dress assistants, who first of all control the presence on women's hats. this is a must-have accessory, without which it is simply impossible to get to the races. so in your quest , the fair sex sometimes chooses the most bizarre headdresses, not to mention the outfits that go with them, the british are joking, what if all the horses suddenly disappear from the hippodrome, even no one will notice this is another tradition strictly observed since 1825. the royal proces