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We’ll have to step up our game at Trooping the Colour for the King, Army leaders

Source: PA Wire

Army colonels have welcomed the news that the King will attend Trooping the Colour, but said it means they will “have to step up our game even more”.

Charles, who has recently returned to public-facing duties while receiving treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer, will take part in the ceremony on June 15, but will inspect the soldiers from a carriage rather than on horseback as he has done previously.

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