A member of the Coldstream Guards organizes a Jubilee program. Photo: Toby Melville / AFP
public reconciliation. The royal family will drop all their differences and fight to show a united front at the Trooping the Color ceremony on Thursday. Harry and Meghan, the Dukes of Sussex, will be in the same seat as Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Camila, the future queen consort. Something that is not planned. It is likely that they bring Archie and Lilibet, their children unknown to the others, at the beginning of the festivities. Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth in London.
Only Prince Andrew, deprived of his titles and patronage by the Epstein case, it will not appear in this image of family reconstruction, laboriously woven by the sovereign.
Everyone will observe the ceremony from the office of the Major General, the former office of the Duke of Wellington, with a amazing view at the parade. Thus was resolved the Buckingham Palace “balcony battle”, which Harry and Meghan cannot access due to their status as royals in exile.
The Royal Guard ready for the parade. Photo: Paul Ellis / AFP
The Sussexes will appear first. It is not yet known if they will have their children with them. If they do, it will be his debut in society before the British. They will be joined by Camilla and Kate, who will arrive on this huge walkway behind the Foreign Office and Downing St, from Buckingham Palace, as well as other royals, including all of the Queen’s grandchildren and their spouses.
The Queen, who has had mobility problems, he will stay at Buckingham Palace and go out on the balcony with his cousinthe Duke of Kent, colonel of the Scots Guards, to receive the salute of the mounted regiment of the domestic cavalry.
He will later be joined on the balcony by members of the royal family, including the Prince of Wales, his wife Camilla, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children. But not the Sussexes.
A Solomonic choreography to solve the mobility problems that afflict her and the differences in status that generated the departure of Harry and Meghan for California have an independent lifeas well as the brutal struggle between them and their own family members.
Buckingham Palace staff put the finishing touches on the balcony. Photo: Chris Jackson / AFP
Prince Charles, heir to the throne, will conduct the ceremony on horseback in his role as Colonel of the Welsh Guards, will greet and inspect the troops of the Domestic Division on behalf of the Queen. He will be joined by William, the Duke of Cambridge, who is a colonel in the Irish Guards, and the Princess Royal, who is a colonel in the Blues and Royals.
Other royals in the carriage procession will be the Earl and Countess of Wessex and their children, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence. Lord Snowdon and his sister, Lady Sarah Chatto, were also invited to the event. their families.
The queen sent the car
Harry and Meghan flew from California, by private plane for 12 hours from Santa Barbara, to participate in the four days of celebrationon the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Queen on the throne.
The ruler sent its historic black Land Rover, a combi and its safety to meet them at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire. They met on the tarmac and escorted for a 40-minute drive to Frogmore Cottage, their home near Windsor Palace, where the Queen lives.
Buckingham Palace in party dress. Photo: HANNAH MCKAY / AFP)
This will be the first time Meghan meets the rest of the royal family from the extraordinarily cold occasion in March 2020, when she and Harry joined William and Kate for Commonwealth service at Westminster Abbey.
It is unknown if the Sussexes will return to Buckingham Palace. A source claimed that members of the royal family traditionally met at the palace after the ceremony, but there was no “hard and fast rule”. The Queen should have lunch at Buckingham Palace, before returning to Windsor Castle, where have you moved permanently. This Thursday it’s your official birthday but not the real one.
Paris, correspondent
Source: Clarin
