{"id":476034,"date":"2026-06-13T23:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476034\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T23:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:39:16","slug":"real-reason-prince-harry-and-meghan-wont-attend-trooping-the-colour-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476034\/","title":{"rendered":"Real reason Prince Harry and Meghan won\u2019t attend Trooping the Colour | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">The King will be joined by Queen Camilla, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children, as well as Prince Edward and Princess Anne. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Harry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle<\/a> are not set to make an appearance today for one major reason &#8211; they are no longer senior working royals.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">The couple, who now live in California, have not attended the event since 2019, having stepped down from duties just before the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" class=\"auto-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/coronavirus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Since stepping back from their royal duties, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as well as their children, have not been included in the guest list for this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 and 2021, the ceremony was scaled down, with no large gatherings due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Since the King&#8217;s first Trooping the Colour in 2023, the monarch has only been joined by senior working royals.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the day comes when the royals step out onto the Buckingham Palace balcony, waving to the spectators below.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan joined her husband at the event back in 2019, her first public appearance after welcoming their son.<\/p>\n<p>The former actress has not set foot back in the UK since her last visit in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex is set to return to the UK next month to attend the one-year countdown event for the 2027 Invictus Games. It remains unknown if he will be joined by his wife and their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King will be joined by Queen Camilla, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,4866,22466,111,139,69,3578,3582,3164,239835],"class_list":["post-476034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-meghan-markle","tag-meghan-markle-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-news","tag-royal-family","tag-trooping-the-colour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}