All eyes were on Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis at the 2025 Trooping the Colour ceremony.
George, 11, Charlotte, 10, and Louis, 7, attended the Saturday, June 14, event alongside their parents, Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton. After arriving to Buckingham Palace via carriage with their mom, the three young royals joined the rest of their relatives on the balcony for the military flypast. Louis even adorably mimicked grandfather King Charles III’s wave to the waiting public as his siblings stood stoically like their parents.
Louis and his older brother, George, twinned in navy suits with red ties, while Charlotte and mom Kate, 43, opted for coordinating teal dresses. William, 42, for his part, dressed in his traditional military uniform like his father, Charles, and paternal aunts and uncles. The Wales family was joined by Charles’ wife, Queen Camilla, and the monarch’s siblings Princess Anne and Prince Edward, along with their respective spouses, on the palace balcony.
The Trooping the Colour parade takes place each June and celebrates the monarch’s birthday, though Charles’ birthday actually falls in November. In recent years, George, Charlotte and Louis have become regular attendees of the event, making their respective debuts on the Buckingham Palace balcony in 2015, 2016 and 2019. The trio have since joined fellow royal family members in the horse-drawn carriages that participate in the parade, with their first appearance occurring during Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022.
Last month, George, Charlotte and Louis made their first public outing of the year on May 5 while commemorating the 80th anniversary of VE Day, which signaled the end of World War II in Europe. The siblings stood with William, 42, and Kate, 43, on the Buckingham Palace balcony to watch a patriotic flypast and viewed a military procession in honor of World War II veterans at the Queen Victoria Memorial outside the palace.
William and Kate’s kids are gradually stepping back into the spotlight after a noticeable absence during the Princess of Wales’ cancer battle in 2024. Kate revealed in September that she completed chemotherapy treatments and announced in January that she is in remission.
Amid her recovery, Kate made a rare appearance at Trooping the Colour in June 2024, with George, Charlotte and Louis by her side. The kids later attended Kate’s “Together at Christmas” carol service in December 2024 with William, and the family joined other royals at their annual Christmas Day church service in Sandringham that same month.
Elsewhere in 2024, William memorably took George and Charlotte to one of Taylor Swift’s June Eras Tour concerts in London, Charlotte accompanied Kate to Wimbledon in July and George attended numerous soccer games with William.
However, William, Kate and their children have continued to maintain a lower profile in recent months, notably skipping the royals’ annual Easter church service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor in April in favor of a more private holiday spent with Kate’s family. The couple and their kids reportedly attended church with Kate’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, in Sandringham, avoiding royal watchers in the process.
A source exclusively told Us Weekly at the time that William and Kate’s absence from the Easter celebration with the royals was “a big deal,” adding that it felt “like a deliberate move and even a snub.”
