A fake Queen-Double for the practice of the Big Day

Living in London, obviating royalty is not always straightforward. 

Especially, if complete roads one usually takes to get from A to B are blocked unexpectedly. 

In order to coincide with fine weather 

- which can be nontrivial in the UK - 

the annual Queen´s Birthday Parade is held around two months after her actual birthday in April. 

This year, it will be held on Saturday, 14th of June, 

but the practice of the actual parade is exerted with equal pageantry and precision 

already one week before. 

Together with my visiting siblings I became witness of this spectacle without previous anticipation:

A lot of horses, Trooping the Colours, all Commonwealth countries represented by their flags, many spectators and the area around the Cavalry, Buckingham Palace and St. James' and Green Park being completely devoted to this event -

all had to be concerted for the appearance of Her Royal Highness: 

 

Final instructions between Guards and policemen, 

endless parades ...

and some adjustment and fiddling

of the famous bearskin
and uniforms

... all, to finally please: 

a Queen-double  - 

as Her Royal Majesty was obviously the only one on this day, 

who did not have to practise!

I do not always know why, 

but nonetheless: