Overview

• Trooping the Colour, a ceremony over 260 years old, involves a military parade, a Buckingham Palace balcony appearance and an RAF flypast to mark the monarch’s official birthday on June 14.
• King Charles III will join the procession by carriage instead of horseback as an adjustment for his ongoing cancer treatment.
• Prince William will ride on horseback as Colonel of the Welsh Guards, joined by the Princess Royal and the Duke of Edinburgh.
• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not attend the ceremony, marking their absence for the second consecutive year.
• President Donald Trump plans a military parade in Washington, D.C., on the same day, drawing comparisons to the royal event.