How Queen Elizabeth Stopped Meghan Markle From Bringing Son To Trooping The Colour

Queen Elizabeth II reportedly did not allow Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to bring their son to the Trooping the Colour earlier this month.

On June 8, Prince William and Kate Middleton took all of their children to the engagement to celebrate Her Majesty’s birthday. It was also Prince Louis’ first time to attend the Trooping the Colour, and he definitely stole the show.

But royal expert Ingrid Seward told The Sun that Her Majesty must have felt that Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was still too young to attend the gathering.

“The Queen, through her private secretary, could easily have said Archie was far too young for the palace balcony, which indeed he is. She herself took baby Prince Edward onto the balcony in June 1964 but he was 3 months old and she was the Queen so she could do as she liked,” Seward said.

She added that for the Queen, the Trooping the Colour is an event that would be enjoyed by young members of the royal family but not those as young as Archie. After all, Her Majesty simply wants to make sure that the young royals could already behave properly at such an event.

“The last thing she wants is for millions of TV viewers to witness a childhood tantrum,” she said.

Archie’s absence from the Trooping the Colour should be a surprise to royal fans. After all, Prince William and Middleton didn’t also bring Prince Louis to the event last year since he was just a few weeks old at that time.

But according to royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams, the decision to not bring Archie to the Trooping the Colour did not have anything to do with the monarch. Rather, the decision was entirely up to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

He said that the last thing that the royal couple wanted was for their son to outshine the Queen. As such, the next time Archie will be seen in public is during his christening.