It’s the photograph the world needs so badly, but it appears we may never see a sight like this again as an iconic royal tradition is overhauled.
There are a lot of things it would have been handy to know in 2019: Stock up on loo paper. Resist the urge to panic buy rice when the pandemic hits. (You will be eating it for, quite literally, years afterwards.)
And the royal family? That eternally entertaining bunch of HRHs with that thrilling new hire Meghan, Duchess of Sussex? Well, it will never look the same again.
As the royal house has been doing since 1760, in early June in 2019 the Queen and her extended family enjoyed a day of rare British sunshine to mark her official birthday with Trooping the Colour. (We can thank George III for this tradition of marking the sovereign’s big day with a big military parade.)
There all 39 of Her Majesty’s nearest and let’s assume dearest gathered for some jolly marching and saluting. Tally ho then!
The photos from the day were just another series in a long line of instances of the extended house of Windsor gathering to do a spot of waving to the masses.
However now it has emerged that we may never see a sight like this again with drastic changes being considered about who is, and who isn’t, welcome to be a part of this iconic royal tradition.
A new report has alleged that the number of approved attendees has been rigorously whittled down, leaving a number of the biggest names mortifyingly off the guest list.
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