Spit and polish

Troops in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment make sure they are looking their best before the Major General’s Review of Trooping the Colour. Today’s event on Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, is a prelude to the Queen’s Birthday Parade on June 2, when celebrations for the Platinum Jubilee begin. The soldiers were photographed in the kit room of their barracks in Knightsbridge.