{"id":636859,"date":"2026-06-13T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636859\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:48:11","slug":"thousands-gather-in-london-to-celebrate-trooping-the-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636859\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands gather in London to celebrate Trooping the Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people travelled from far and wide to celebrate King Charles III&#8217;s official birthday parade, dubbed the &#8216;Trooping the Colour,&#8217; in London on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The monarch was joined by his wife, Queen Camila, as they greeted the crowds in a horse and carriage. Then, from the balcony of Buckingham palace, the Royal Family gathered to watch the military flyover of Buckingham Palace where four fighter jets left a trail of red, blue and white vapour in honour of the British crown. <\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, did not attend the parade.<\/p>\n<p>As the national anthem was played a group of anti monarchy protesters in front of Buckingham Palace held up posters reading &#8220;not my king.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>They also displayed pictures of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the King&#8217;s brother, who was stripped of his royal titles over his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles III&#8217;s actual birthday is on 14 November, where he was 77 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people travelled from far and wide to celebrate King Charles III&#8217;s official birthday parade, dubbed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,984,50,443,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-636859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}