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Queen Trooping the Color's annual parade today takes place with great fanfare with the coup de send events at 10am BST. On the Royal Family website, the website says: "The streets are filled with crowds waving flags as the parade moves from Buckingham Palace to the mall and goes to the Horse Guard Parade, alongside members of the royal family on horseback and in a carriage with an overflight of the RAF, guarded by members of the royal family from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. "
But when Lady Diana Spencer attended this prestigious event for the first time before marrying Prince Charles, the day soon deteriorated.
However, before the events became sadistic, the scandal had already shaken the day.
On June 13, 1981, at the age of 19, Diana was riding with Prince Andrew, while her future husband, Prince Charles, was riding.
The future princess of Wales wore a personalized blue flower suit from Bill Pashley and a matching fascinator for the celebration.
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Princess Diana was not yet married to Prince Charles at the time, which makes his presence at the event a scandal of sorts, as it breaks the royal protocol "do not ring, do not bring".
However, the break with tradition would soon become the last concern of the royal family of the day.
The events took a frightful turn when 17-year-old Marcus Simon Sarjeant fired six clear shots in quick succession to the queen who was 55 at the time.
According to Yahoo News, the ex-cadet reportedly told his captors during his arrest after a skirmish with the police: "I wanted to be famous. I wanted to be someone. "
Unemployed at the time of the incident, the former cadet of Folkestone Air Training, Kent, became the last person to be detained under the 1842 Treason Act.
The young man was found guilty of voluntarily discharging a weapon "to or near Her Majesty the Queen with the intent to alarm or despair Her Majesty".
Lord Lane, Chief Justice, Lord Lane sentenced Sarjeant to five years' imprisonment, stating, "I have no doubt that if you could have obtained a real firearm, you would have tried to kill His Majesty."
After three years in prison, mostly spent in the Grendon psychiatric prison in Buckinghamshire, Sarjeant was released in October 1984 at the age of 20.
Upon his release, he changed his name and started a new life.
After Sarjeant's shocking act, the Trooping the Color ceremony continued normally, with the queen displaying a stoic and stiff spirit on her upper lip.
Princess Diana is not denied her big moment on the balcony with the Royals.
But with her marriage just a month away, the crime of treason was a source of security concern.
However, the marriage of the century went off without a hitch and Diana was married to her prince as planned.
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