ITV Border archive: Celebrating the King's official birthday
Saturday 14 June marked the King's official birthday with celebrations and the Trooping the Colour parade taking place in Central London.
Military pomp and pageantry was on display in London to mark the milestone but the event also remembered those killed in the Air India plane crash.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said the King requested amendments to the Trooping the Colour programme 'as a mark of respect for the lives lost, the families in mourning and all the communities affected by this awful tragedy."
Trooping the Colour saw more than 1,000 servicemen taking part in the military display who when not performing ceremonial duties are fighting soldiers.
The colour – regimental flag – being trooped this year is the King's Colour of Number 7 Company, Coldstream Guards, a prestigious regiment known as the sovereign's bodyguard which is celebrating its 375th anniversary this year.
ITV Border archive footage from 1977 showcases the King on Ullswater's dry ski-slope.
In 1981 he visited south-west Scotland where one spectator was lucky enough to get a kiss off of the future King.
Four years later he was in Whitehaven where retrieved a women's hat before returning it to her.
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