{"id":498870,"date":"2026-06-14T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/498870\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:10:11","slug":"queen-camilla-pays-tribute-to-queen-elizabeth-ii-with-a-symbolic-military-brooch-at-trooping-the-colour-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/498870\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II with a symbolic military brooch at Trooping the Colour 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Camilla was made Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in December 2022, when the details of that year&#8217;s Trooping the Colour were announced. The role was previously held by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. At the same time, the Princess of Wales\u2019s appointment as Colonel of the Irish Guards and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/the-prince-of-wales\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Prince of Wales<\/a>\u2019s appointment as Colonel of the Welsh Guards were announced.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Princess of Wales also paid tribute to her military role at Trooping the Colour 2026. In addition to her outfit, the Princess of Wales made a nod to one of her most important royal roles, wearing the Regimental brooch of the Irish Guards, where she serves as what Clare Balding described as a \u2018hugely popular\u2019 Colonel. A rayed St. Patrick\u2019s Star, the brooch bears the gilt motto of the Order of St Patrick \u2013 \u2018Quis Separabit MDCCLXXXIII\u2019, which translates into \u2018Who shall separate us?\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Person Adult and Head\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2281364926.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Princess of Wales wore a brooch honouring her position as Colonel of the Irish Guards at Trooping the Colour 2026<\/p>\n<p>Chris Jackson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Roman numerals refer to 2023, the year that the Princess of Wales formally took up her role as Colonel of the Irish Guards after King Charles promoted her to the position in 2022. The brooch also bears an enamel green shamrock, three crowns, and a red enamel saltire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla was made Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in December 2022, when the details of that year&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,43,11646,4827],"class_list":["post-498870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-queen-camilla","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}