Trooping the Colour, or the King's Birthday Parade, is one of the biggest events of the Royal Family's calendar, and marks the House of Windsor putting their best forward during one of their most challenging years in decades. Both Kate and King Charles are currently being treated for cancer but both appeared at the much-loved event. The Princess of Wales has been out of the spotlight as she focusses on her recovery but made a huge effort to be there this year, but there are two other familiar faces that definitely won't be present on the Buckingham Palace flypast - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle .
Despite being regular attendees before they moved across the Atlantic, as non-working royals, the Sussexes won't attend the ceremonial day of pomp and pageantry. During the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, however, the couple did attend despite their new status, although they did not make an appearance on the Buckingham Palace balcony when the rest of the royals watched the RAF flypast and waved to the crowds below. However, when Meghan made her balcony debut back when she first joined the Royal Family , things were a little awkward behind closed doors, as Prince Harry revealed in his bestselling memoir Spare.
The incident occurred back in 2018, only a few weeks after Harry and Meghan had tied the knot at a star-studded ceremony in Windsor. Once the royals had gone back inside Buckingham Palace after the flypast was complete, Harry claimed, Meghan tried to crack a joke wi.