More from SheKnows<\/strong><\/p>\n Harry recalled that the 2018 Trooping the Colour<\/a> festivities were one of his and Markle\u2019s \u201cfirst public appearances as newlyweds\u201d after getting married a month earlier. The pair returned from their 10-day honeymoon in the Mediterranean just in time to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n Royal fans will remember that Markle made headlines for breaking Royal protocol<\/a> at the event, but Harry noted in his memoir that throughout most of the day, \u201ceveryone present was in a good mood, upbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the Duke of Sussex said the mood suddenly shifted after the family\u2019s appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n Upon returning inside, Harry wrote that, \u201cKate asked Meg what she thought of her first Trooping the Colour.\u201d Harry said that his new bride jokingly described the event as, \u201cColourful,\u201d poking fun at the name. After her joke, Middleton allegedly responded with what Harry called \u201ca yawning silence\u201d that \u201cthreatened to swallow us all whole.\u201d<\/p>\n Middleton and Markle\u2019s fraught relationship<\/a> was well documented in Harry\u2019s memoir. He wrote that the two women had a falling out in the lead up to his and Markle\u2019s wedding after Middleton\u2019s texts about Princess Charlotte\u2019s bridesmaid dress not fitting properly left Markle \u201csobbing\u201d on the floor.<\/p>\n Harry and Markle attended the Trooping the Colour once more in 2019, but by the time the Royals made their return after a two-year hiatus in 2020 and 2021, the couple had announced their departure from Royal duties and relocated to the US.<\/p>\n Before you go, click here<\/a> to see the best photos of the royal family at Trooping the Colour over the years.<\/strong><\/p>\n Best of SheKnows<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for SheKnows’ Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry once revealed an awkward exchange between Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton that happened at Markle\u2019s first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,533,7720,1281,447,7710,519,18563,33951,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-185344","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-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-meghan","14":"tag-meghan-markle","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-sheknows","19":"tag-trooping-the-colour","20":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114685233380974254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185344","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=185344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3d194d0f1948bdcf9cf6114a95835d18.jpeg\"\/)
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