{"id":168608,"date":"2025-06-08T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168608\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:43:08","slug":"prince-williams-thoughts-on-key-trooping-the-colour-role-revealed-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168608\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William’s thoughts on key Trooping the Colour role revealed | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/a> is set to ride horseback at this year’s Trooping the Colour<\/a>, it has been revealed. The royal, who will celebrate his 43rd birthday later this month, is set to join Princess Anne and Prince Edward by riding during the annual event.<\/p>\n

The event, which takes place every June<\/a>, has been held to mark the sovereign’s official birthday since the accession of King George IV in 1820, except during the world wars and a national strike in 1955. The event was held in a scaled-back form at Windsor Castle in 2020 due to the Coronavirus<\/a> pandemic. The traditional parade has seen King Charles riding horseback in the past both as Prince of Wales and monarch. Last year, he took part in the parade on a carriage, and he has been tipped to do the same this year.<\/p>\n

According to The Times,<\/a> the King will join Queen Camilla in a carriage for the procession from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade and back.<\/p>\n

The source previously revealed what William really thinks of his role at the annual event, adding, “He really enjoys it.”<\/p>\n

The King, 76, has been present in the saddle during many of the celebrations held throughout the reign of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

The late Queen, who died aged 96 in 2022, last rode during her birthday celebrations in 1986.<\/p>\n

As well as William, Anne and Edward, the Duchess of Edinburgh are set to make an appearance next week.<\/p>\n

William could also be joined by Princess Kate, 43, and their three children – Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 10, and seven-year-old Prince Louis.<\/p>\n

Duchess Sophie and Edward were joined by their 21-year-old daughter Lady Louise Windsor last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William is set to ride horseback at this year’s Trooping the Colour, it has been revealed. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,70475,70476,2831,7710,519,67292,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-168608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-prince-william-horse-riding","15":"tag-prince-william-trooping-the-colour","16":"tag-princess-of-wales","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-trooping-the-colour-2025","20":"tag-uk-royal-family","21":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114649930454385680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}