King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery's Cornish Holiday

Mounted soldiers from the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery give horses free rein and cut a dashing war horse image in the sea between Marazion and St Michael's Mount in Cornwall. The spectacle always draws a crowd. The King's Troop are used in high-profile ceremonial duties in London including the State Opening of Parliament and Trooping the Colour which is the monarch's Birthday Parade celebrated in June and the mounted troops perform a walk-march and trot-past.

The King's Troop parades as drive teams of six horses pulling WWI 13 pounder field guns used for twenty-one gun salutes on state occasions in Hyde Park or Green Park. There are nine regular cavalry regiments of the British Army, two are armoured tank regiments, three are armoured cavalry regiments, three are light cavalry and one is a mounted ceremonial regiment. Michael Morpurgo's fictional story War Horse is a book, play and 2011 film and celebrates the role of the horse in the First World War. The King's Troop pulled the gun carriage carrying the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales for the public funeral on 6 September 1997. In 2012 they moved into a new equestrian centre in the Woolwich Garrison in London.