Kate’s mini-me! Princess Charlotte, 11, matches her mother in a white and blue dress as they travel together during the King’s birthday parade
Princess Charlotte matched her mother, the Princess of Wales, in an elegant white and blue ensemble when she attended the Trooping the Color event in London today.
The 11-year-old royal attended her grandfather King Charles’ birthday celebration along with her siblings Prince George, 12, and Louis, eight.
Charlotte arrived at the ceremony by car with her parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales and her siblings, and then enjoyed a horse-drawn carriage ride with George.
The princess wore a white and blue collared dress with a cute bow in her hair for the occasion. Similarly, her mother Kate opted for a matching Catherine Walker coat dress.
Last month, royal fans said the 11-year-old was starting to look like her father, Prince William, after a stunning new photo of the Princess was released to celebrate her birthday.
As the Princess grew older, she repeatedly visited the young Queen Elizabeth II. She has been compared to Elizabeth and fans have gone wild over her striking resemblance to her great-grandmother.
The King’s Birthday Parade this year takes place exactly a week after the royal family gathered for the ‘intimate’ wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling in Kemble, Gloucestershire.
Catherine looked perfectly composed as she arrived at All Saints Church with husband William, 43, wearing a £750 Roland Mouret dress and Jane Taylor hat.
Princess Charlotte matched her mother, the Princess of Wales, in an elegant white and blue outfit when she attended the Trooping the Color event in London today.
The 11-year-old royal attended her grandfather King Charles’ birthday celebration along with her siblings Prince George, 12, and Louis, eight.
Charlotte arrived at the ceremony by car with her parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales and her siblings, and then enjoyed a horse-drawn carriage ride with George.
The future Queen was greeted to the sounds of cheering crowds of well-wishers who gathered to catch a glimpse of the royal guests.
Trotting the Color is a military ceremony that dates back to the 18th century and is one of the most high-profile royal events of the year.
This has its roots in the battlefield tradition where regimental flags or ‘colours’ were hung in front of soldiers to ensure they could be identified through the smoke of war.
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This year, the honor of rallying the Colored troops falls to the Grenadier Guards, the British Army’s most senior infantry regiment, which is celebrating its 370th anniversary.
This year marks the fourth year to Unite the Color of Her Majesty’s reign, following the death of Queen Elizabeth on 8 September 2022.
In 1951, at the age of three, Charles attended his first Trooping the Color, riding in a carriage with his grandmother Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and his aunt Princess Margaret.
The King first attended the parade in 1975 as Colonel of the Welsh Guards.
The Colors enlisted today were presented to the Regiment by the King in Buckingham Palace Gardens on Tuesday 9 June.
Trooping the Color was once the largest public gathering of royals, with more than 40 members of the Firm jostling for position on the Buckingham Palace balcony during the flight.
Now, the sparse group consists solely of working royals, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Crown and her husband, Vice-Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
They will be joined by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, who is now the oldest working royal at 90. The King’s estranged son, Prince Harry, who lives in Montecito, and his wife, Meghan Markle, will significantly not be there.
The daughters of disgraced former prince Andrew and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will not be able to attend today’s Connecting the Colours, having last attended in 2022.
The Princess of Wales sat next to her youngest son Prince Louis for the Trooping the Color Parade
The King and Queen took part in the birthday parade by riding a horse-drawn carriage during the event
They were last seen on the palace balcony with the late Queen Elizabeth in 2019, after arriving at the Horse Guards Parade in a convertible, accompanied by Eugenie’s husband Jack Brooksbank and Prince Edward.
Following the scandal surrounding Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson’s friendship with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Eugenie, who is expecting her third child with Beatrice and Jack, has largely stayed out of the spotlight.
While they will be welcomed back into the royal family for Peter and Harriet’s wedding, Beatrice and Eugenie, who are not working members of the Firm, will not be attending today’s festivities.
