Safety first. Queen Elizabeth II won’t be marking her upcoming ninety fifth birthday with the normal Trooping the Color parade for the second year in a row amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Buckingham Palace confirmed on Friday, March 19, that the annual occasion has been canceled. “Following consultation with Government and other relevant parties it has been agreed that The Queen’s Official Birthday Parade, also known as Trooping the Colour, will not go ahead this year in its traditional form in central London,” the assertion learn. “Options for an alternative Parade, in the quadrangle at Windsor Castle, are being considered.”
While the queen’s birthday falls on April 21, the celebration is at all times held throughout the second weekend in June. The annual Garter service, which usually happens at St George’s Chapel after the parade, can even not happen.
Last year, the monarch was pressured to change her birthday plans as stay-at-home orders had been enforced within the early days of the COVID-19 disaster. Instead of her traditional fanfare, Her Majesty was honored with “a small, brief ceremony at Windsor Castle” in June 2020.
Two months earlier than Buckingham Palace introduced the change within the queen’s schedule, The Sunday Times reported that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had been anticipated to return to the U.Okay. for the Trooping the Colour for the primary time since their final engagement as senior royals in March 2020. The couple, who tied the knot in May 2018, initially exited their senior roles in January 2020. They relocated to California with their son, Archie, now 22 months, two months later.
In February, the palace revealed that Harry, 36, and the Suits alum, 39, “will not be returning as working members of the royal family.” Days earlier, the duo introduced that Meghan is pregnant with their second little one after experiencing a miscarriage final summer time.
When information broke of the pair’s everlasting exit from their royal duties, a supply instructed Us Weekly that “the queen was hoping that they’d return,” however had come to phrases along with her youngest grandson’s determination.
The drama continued for the royal household earlier this month when Harry and Meghan sat down for an eye-opening interview on CBS, their first since settling down within the U.S. final year. During the explosive tell-all, the previous army pilot and his spouse detailed all the pieces from the tolls royal life took on their psychological well being to an unnamed relative’s “concerns” about Archie’s pores and skin coloration earlier than he was born.
According to a supply, the queen “has been in constant crisis meetings” for the reason that Sussexes claims made headlines.
“The queen has always had a soft spot for Harry and looked out for him, so [she] is incredibly hurt and shocked that it has come to this,” the insider added. “She’s trying to be understanding and see things from Harry’s perspective, but the allegations he and Meghan have made are hard for her to digest. The interview has wreaked havoc on the royal family.”
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