Newton Abbot Travel Club
COLONELS REVIEW
With HRH Prince of Wales (Prince William)
Friday 9th/Saturday 10th June 2023
Friday
Morning departure with comfort stop enroute to Cliveden the National Trust property that has been a country estate to various dukes etc, a hospital during WWI but it is most probably remembered best when it hit the headlines in 1963 when John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, was revealed to have first met the 19-year-old model and dancer Christine Keeler by the swimming pool at Cliveden two years earlier. Their brief affair became a political scandal when it was revealed Keeler was also in a relationship with Soviet naval attaché Yevgeny Ivanov. The 'Profumo Affair', as it became known, ended John Profumo's political career and contributed to the downfall of the Conservative government in the General Election in 1964. It shattered the Astors' lives and the death shortly afterwards of Waldorf and Nancy’s son Bill hastened the family’s decision to leave Cliveden.
Waldorf Astor had given Cliveden to the National Trust in 1942 and in 1966 the Trust took over the management of the estate, opening it to the public. The house is now an up market hotel and not open to non residents today.
However we are able to enjoy the wonderful gardens, 80 acres of year-round interest and colour, from the bedding scheme of the geometric Parterre, hundreds of roses in the Rose Garden, a oriental-inspired Water Garden, to Lord Astor’s sculpture collection.
Saturday
An early breakfast then we make our way into London to take our seats on Horse Guards parade ready for the Colonels Review. This is obviously outside on the Parade Ground, you will need to think positive for dry weather as umbrellas are not allowed and not too hot.
Dress code is smart casual or uniform.
Todays review of Trooping the Colour by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales is identical to Trooping the Colour reviewed by His Majesty The King, with the exception that some additional mounted officers ride when His Majesty The King is present.
Taking part will be over 1400 soldiers of the Household Division and The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, including 400 musicians from the Massed Bands, all of whom will parade on Horse Guards for the second of two formal Reviews.
Trooping the Colour reviewed by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales also includes 250 soldiers from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, the 1st Battalion Irish Guards and, for the first time, the 1st Battalion London Guards (the Foot Guards’ Reserve Unit), who will line the processional route along The Mall.
The soldiers will be inspected by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, Colonel Welsh Guards.
Afterwards it will be extremley busy so we will meet the coach and go to
Windsor where we should be able to get some refreshments then enjoy going a boat trip before making our way home.
Included in the price
Coach travel with pickups, Newton Abbot, Greenhill Way route Kingsteignton & Exeter Services
Dinner Bed & Breakfast @ 4* Voco Reading
Grandstand seat for Colonels Reveiw
Visit to Cleveden House (National Trust)
*Free entry for NT members on production of membership card
Boat trip @ Windsor.
£179 per person sharing
£35 single supplement
£50 per person non-refundable deposit with booking
Balance due by 1st May 2023
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Please note insurance is not included
