June 14, 2025 will be one of the most important days in the British Royal calendar: the traditional King’s Birthday Parade will take place in London, namely the Trooping The Colorthe “official” birthday of the King of England, enhanced by the participation of 1400 soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians, as the Windsor website points out. Last year all the eyes were focused on Kate Middleton, who returned to public after months of absence due to the operation at the abdomen of January 17, 2024 and the diagnosis of cancer. Now Royal Family is ready to celebrate the sovereign with greater serenity, given the improvement of the princess’s health conditions. However, there would be another problem: just next June 14 Meghan will be the protagonist of a fundamental event for his popularity for some time in free fall. The tabloids wonder if it is a coincidence or a strategy and fear that the Duchess can, at least in part, obscure the Royal Family.
The “public” birthday of the king
The terms Trooping The Color means the ceremony of the flag show. This is the original meaning of the event, which would have originated from the habit of the Alfieri to march with the flags explained on the battlefields, in order to allow the soldiers to find the belonging regiment in the roar of the clashes. As the Household Division website explains, the guard who is part of the British Army’s London District and has the task of protecting the sovereign through its seven regiments (including two of soldiers on horseback), the first sovereign to celebrate the Trooping The Color, in 1660, was Charles II (1660-1685). In 1748 the parade took on a second meaning, which came up to us, or that of the official birthday of the king. With Giorgio III, in 1760, the celebrations became annual. It was Edoardo VII (1901-1910), however, to establish that Trooping The Color took place in June, to avoid the unexpected events of the time that has become, paradoxically, a tradition in Great Britain.
Again in a carriage
It is customary that the British sovereigns guide the procession of the Trooping The Color while on horseback. The Guardian specifies that the Regina Elisabettafor example, he did it until 1986, when for the last time he introduced himself to the parade riding Burmese, his favorite horse, who participated in 18 consecutive parades. Instead Carlo III, reports the Telegraph, marched at the head of the parade from Buckingham Palace in Horse Guards Palace Cavalcando Noble, seven years old, gift of the Royal Canadian Mounda Police, only in 2023, the year of his first Trooping The Color da Monarca. In 2024, after the diagnosis of cancer and on medical advice, the king opted for the carriage. This year it will not be different, as The Times reveals. According to the newspaper Carlo could even definitively abandon the tradition of the procession on horseback: the rumors mentioned by Skynews.com, in fact, claim that his illness would be “incurable”.
Projects for the 80th anniversary of Carlo
His Majesty The weekly therapies continues but, said the journalist Camilla Tominey to Telegraph, there would be no hope of complete healing: “Now the discussion focuses on the fact that (Carlo) could die ‘with’ Cancer, but not ‘cancer after the rigorous treatment program”. Impossible to know how reliable this, since we do not know the details relating to the type of cancer and the phase of the disease in which the sovereign would be. The variables involved are manifold. However, Tominey continued, Buckingham Palace would be “Trying” to carry on the plans for the celebrations of Carlo’s 80th birthday, in 2028, in the hope that his state of health will remain under control. In this regard, the People reports the words of an insider who last May, after the visit of the king and the queen in Canada, said: “We learned that the disease (Di Carlo) can be managed and is what he does. Medical science has made incredible progress and honestly I do not see any difference in the (king). As long as he does what doctors say, one can live a life as normal as possible and this is what he does”.
The Royal Princess at the Trooping The Color
If Charles will guide the procession from his sister’s carriage, the Princess Annahe will mount in the saddle as every year, he tells us the Magazine Hello, in his role of Gold Stick-in-Waiting and Colonel of the Blues and Royals Regiment, belonging to the British Army. Among other things, the Trooping The Color 2025 marks the return to the horse in public of Anna, 75 years old next August, after the accident of June 2024, which took place in his residence as Gatcombe Park (Gloucestershire). The princess would have fallen from the horse, although the dynamics of the event is not clear: in addition to the bruises, in fact, Anna has reported a head injury and a amnesia, which still persists today, relating to the moments preceding the incident and the accident itself.
Waiting for Kate
At the parade there will also be the Wales princess, Kate Middleton. Also for her the Trooping The Color 2025 will have a special meaning, since it will represent the gradual return to normal, the hope of total healing. We cannot forget that last year the parade marked Kate’s first public commitment after the operation at the abdomen of January 17, 2024 and the discovery of cancer, communicated to the whole world on March 22, 2024, through a moving speech after months of allegations and reprehensible fake news. The princess, aware of having the gaze of the world focused on herself, came to the smiling parade in her black and white dress by Jenny Packham with a hatted hat of Philip Treacy, trying to reassure the British on her condition and its soul, more alive than ever. If the Trooping The Color 2024 passed into an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty, that of 2025 could symbolize the princess’s rebirth after the most serious phase of the disease.
And then comes meghan
Harry And Meghan They participated in their last Trooping The Color as a senior members of the Royal Family in 2019, recalls Mirror, a month after the birth of Archie. In 2022 the couple, now settled in California, returned to London to attend the Queen’s Birthday Parade, which that year was inserted in the largest and most sumptuous celebrations for the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. To the dukes, however, it was imposed to maintain a low profile and, in any case, their presence was completely exceptional. Usually, in fact, the Sussex would not even be invited to the official birthday of the sovereign. 2025, however, will be a little different than usual. On the same day when the Windsor will celebrate Carlo III, Meghan Markle will be committed elsewhere, for an event that could help her strengthen its shaky popularity.
“The night of wonders”
As the mirror reveals the duchess It will be the guest of honor of the “Night of Wonders”, a gala evening that will take place at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. During the evening the Duchess will be rewarded for her work with the charity, in particular for the philanthropic work dedicated to minorities, women’s rights and disadvantaged people. In addition, Meghan will pronounce a speech on his work and his next goals. Harry’s presence has not yet been confirmed, but tabloids believe that he can be quite probable, given that the prince often accompanies his wife to such important appointments.
A coincidence?
Of course, this overlap of events has not gone unnoticed in the media. Many wondered if Meghan is not trying to steal the scene from the Royal Family. To tell the truth it seems much more reliable the possibility that it is a case, a simple coincidence. Generally the choice of the date of an event is a question that concerns the organizers, not guests of honor. It is also really unlikely, indeed, let’s say almost impossible that Meghan will be able to obscure the Trooping The Color and Windsor. For her “The Night of Wonders” will be an excellent opportunity for professional growth, an important “showcase”, let’s call it that. However, the Duchess cannot hope to compete with history, tradition, the media echo of the Trooping The Color. It would be naive.
On June 14, 2025, at about 1:25 pm (Italian time) we will see the Red Arrows darting in front of the Buckingham Palace balcony, in front of Charles IIIQueen Camilla, the principles of Wales with their children, Princess Anna with her husband, Sir Timothy Laurence and the dukes of Edinburgh. A few hours later, on the other side of the world, Meghan will receive the award and make his speech, perhaps with Harry next to it. The separate Windsor and Sussex, each for their own way. Maybe forever.