Princess Charlotte matched her mother, the Princess of Wales, in an elegant white and blue ensemble today as she attended Trooping the Colour in London.
The 11-year-old royal appeared alongside her siblings, Princes George, 12, and Louis, eight, for her grandfather King Charles‘s birthday celebration.
Charlotte arrived with her parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and her siblings via car to the ceremonial parade, before enjoying a carriage ride with George.
The Princess wore a white and blue collared dress, with an adorable 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 resemble her father, Prince William, after a charming new photograph of the Princess was released to mark her birthday.
As she has grown up, the Princess has also been repeatedly compared to a young Queen Elizabeth II, with fans going wild over her striking resemblance to her great-grandmother.
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.
Princess Charlotte matched her mother, the Princess of Wales, in an elegant white and blue ensemble today as she attended Trooping the Colour in London
The 11-year-old royal appeared alongside her siblings, Princes George, 12, and Louis, eight, for her grandfather King Charles’s birthday celebration
Charlotte arrived with her parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and her siblings via car to the ceremonial parade, before enjoying a carriage ride with George
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.
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, 9 June.
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.
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.
The Princess of Wales sat next to her youngest son Prince Louis for the Trooping the Colour parade
The King and Queen attended the birthday parade, riding in a carriage during the event
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.
