Prince George looked incredibly grown up as he joined his siblings Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis at Trooping the Colour.
The future king, 12, put on a smart display in a stylish suit for the King’s official birthday in London as he was seen arriving with his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales.
While it’s typically just Princess Charlotte who coordinates outfits with her mother, today Princes George and Louis donned a blue tie that was the exact shade of Kate’s dress.
Charlotte, meanwhile, put on an elegant display in a white and blue, collared dress, with a matching bow in her hair.
Catherine and William’s eldest son, who sat next to his sister while travelling towards Buckingham Palace via carriage, was seen waving to well-wishers who lined The Mall.
The Royal Family joined thousands of spectators in Whitehall for the annual event that brought together some of the military’s most prestigious regiments to mark Charles’ anniversary.
The occasion was once an affair that saw the balcony at Buckingham Palace brimming with at least 44 royals as it included more distant relatives. But over the last few years, only working royals – and the Waleses’ children – have attended the event.
George’s outing today comes after the Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden revealed that he was told on good authority that the prince will be going to the prestigious Eton College this September, having sat his entrance exams last week.
Prince George waved to well-wishers as he travelled along The Mall at during Trooping the Colour today
Today, guardsmen in their scarlet tunics and bearskin caps delivered a display of precision marching on Horse Guards Parade, honed over weeks of practice and part of their ceremonial duties when not fighting soldiers.
The national celebration is one of the highlights of the royal calendar and features the Royal Family assembled on Buckingham Palace’s balcony for the traditional flypast of RAF aircraft.
The colour – regimental flag – being trooped this year is the King’s Colour of the Grenadier Guards presented by the King earlier this week during a Buckingham Palace ceremony.
The new Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis is expected to be among the spectators with other senior cabinet members, including the Prime Minister, after his predecessor John Healey quit on Thursday over a dispute about long-term funding for the military.
The King’s Birthday Parade this year comes exactly one week after the royals gathered in Kemble, Gloucestershire, for Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling’s ‘intimate’ wedding.
Catherine looked the picture of poise as she arrived at All Saints Church in a Roland Mouret £750 dress and Jane Taylor hat, alongside her husband William, 43.
The future Queen was met with the sounds of cheers from crowds of well-wishers who had gathered to catch a glimpse of the royal guests.
Trooping the Colour is a military ceremony that dates back to the 18th century and is one of the most high-profile royal events of the year.
Prince George and Princess Charlotte are pictured at Trooping the Colour in central London today
The future king looked dapper in a smart suit and blue tie, which matched his mother, the Princess of Wales’ ensemble
The future heir to the throne, Prince George, 12, was sat next to his sister as they travelled to Buckingham Palace before the Royal Family makes their famed balcony appearance
It is rooted in battlefield custom, when regimental flags, or ‘colours,’ were trooped in front of soldiers to ensure they could be recognised amid the smoke of combat.
This year, the honour of trooping the Colour falls to the Grenadier Guards, the British Army’s most senior infantry regiment, which is celebrating its 370th anniversary.
This year marks the fourth Trooping the Colour of His Majesty’s reign, after the death of Queen Elizabeth on September 8, 2022.
Charles attended his first Trooping the Colour in 1951, aged three, riding in a carriage with his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and his aunt, Princess Margaret.
The King first rode in the parade as Colonel of the Welsh Guards in 1975.
The Colours being trooped today were presented to The Regiment by The King in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, June 9.
Trooping the Colour was once the largest public gathering of royals of the year, with more than 40 members of the Firm jostling for position on the Buckingham Palace balcony during the flypast.
Now, the sparse group is made up of working royals only, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Royal and her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
The future Queen with her three children, Prince Louis (next to Kate), and Prince George and Princess Charlotte sat opposite
They will be joined by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, now the oldest working royal at the age of 90, while the King’s estranged son, Montecito-based Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, will be notably absent.
The daughters of disgraced former prince Andrew, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will not attend today’s Trooping the Colour, which they last attended in 2022.
They were last seen on the palace balcony with the late Queen Elizabeth in 2019, after they arrived at the Horse Guards Parade riding in an open-top carriage accompanied by Eugenie’s husband, Jack Brooksbank, and Prince Edward.
In the wake of the scandal surrounding Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson’s friendship with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Beatrice and Eugenie – who is expecting her third child with Jack – have largely kept out of the spotlight.
While they were welcomed back into the royal fold for Peter and Harriet’s wedding, Beatrice and Eugenie – who are not working members of The Firm – will not attend today’s festivities.
