Queen Elizabeth II
She plans Trooping the Color with Harry and Meghan
The Royals on the balcony of Buckingham Palace at Trooping the Color in 2019
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The Queen is reportedly planning her return to London. Harry and Meghan are apparently also waiting for Trooping the Color.
Queen Elizabeth II (94) is apparently already planning for the coming months. The monarch, who has already been vaccinated against the corona virus, is due to return to London in June, according to the Sunday Times. Then the Trooping the Color military parade is held to celebrate the Queen's 95th birthday. The Queen is still in Corona isolation at Windsor Castle with her husband Prince Philip (99). She is said not to have been to Buckingham Palace since March.
The Queen turns 95 on April 21, but traditionally the celebrations for her birthday take place in June. In 2021 the event in Great Britain could be the first big celebration since the beginning of the pandemic – and the reunion with the entire royal family: According to the "Sunday Times", palace employees have announced that Prince Harry (36) and Duchess Meghan (39) will attend the official event should participate, as this is also a "family event". The Duke and Duchess of Sussex resigned as high-ranking members of the Royals in spring 2020 and moved to California with their son Archie (1).
What will become of Prince Andrew?
A supposedly high-ranking palace official told the newspaper: "Currently, the Queen's birthday parade is planned to take place as usual in London, with the assumption that it may need to be adjusted or scaled back depending on the guidelines then in place." The palace's wish is that the event can take place. The date would be June 12 in 2021, two days after Prince Philip's 100th birthday.
Harry and Meghan last appeared publicly in the UK in March 2020. Trooping the Color would then be their first event with the Royals since appearing at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey. Will Prince Andrew (60) also celebrate with his mother, the Queen, in June? He resigned from his royal offices in November 2019 after he was seriously incriminated by his connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (1953-2019) and he failed to credibly refute his involvement in the scandal in a disastrous BBC interview.