Woombye Light Horse Troop honours Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year royal reign

The Woombye Light Horse Troop has honoured the 70 years of royal service of Queen Elizabeth II with a march through the township’s main street.

A small crowd, some waving the Union Jack, gathered to watch the 2nd Light Horse Regiment – Woombye Troop, led by President Ian Malcolm, accompany a portrait of the late Queen to the Woombye War Memorial.

“To me she was beyond reproach,” Mr Malcolm said of the late monarch.

“We’ve had a lot of bad publicity lately on some of the royals – I imagine that goes back right through the monarchy, back into the 17th and 16th centuries – but the Queen has always stood above all that, and to me she is just the epitome of a well-put-together person.

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Article written by RICHARD BRUINSMA