Princess Charlotte Wears Present from Queen Elizabeth at Trooping the Color

Princess Charlotte pinned on a particular accent for Trooping the Colour.

On June 14, Prince William and Kate Middleton‘s daughter joined the royal household in honoring King Charles at Trooping the Color, the annual parade celebrating the monarch’s public birthday. Princess Charlotte, 10, coordinated with her mom in an aqua costume, and he or she accomplished her look with a significant brooch.

Charlotte sported a diamond horseshoe brooch, which she previously wore at Queen Elizabeth‘s funeral in September 2022. PEOPLE solely revealed on the time that the accent was a present from the history-making monarch to her great-granddaughter and previously belonged to Queen Elizabeth’s mother (who additionally referred to as Queen Elizabeth and was often called the Queen Mom when her daughter acceded to the throne to keep away from confusion).

The brooch honored Queen Elizabeth’s love of horses, and Princess Charlotte appears to have adopted in her footsteps. It was beforehand revealed that Charlotte was taking riding lessons and had a powerful curiosity within the animals. In spite of everything, it is in her blood — and each Queen Elizabeth’s daughter Princess Anne and granddaughter Zara Tindall have competed in equestrian occasions within the Olympics.

Princess Kate beforehand revealed that Queen Elizabeth had a particular bond with Princess Charlotte from the beginning. In ITV’s 2016 documentary The Queen at Ninety, Kate revealed, “The Queen was actually thrilled that it was a bit of lady, and I feel as quickly as we got here again right here to Kensington, she was one in every of our first guests right here.”

Princess Charlotte’s take a look at Trooping the Color additionally included her go-to coiffure: two braids with a center half pulled again right into a half-updo.

Princess Charlotte rode in a horse-drawn carriage by the streets of London for Trooping the Color, sitting beside her mother whereas her brothers, Prince George and Prince Louis, confronted them on the opposite aspect of the coach. In the meantime, their father, Prince William, rode on horseback for the procession.

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Princess Charlotte is thought for perfecting protocol throughout royal occasions — and ensuring her brothers do the identical!

Final 12 months at Trooping the Color, the younger princess was noticed telling Prince Louis to “cease” when he cheekily danced around to the band’s music. Later, through the household’s look on the Buckingham Palace balcony, she was seen telling her little brother how to hold his arms because the nationwide anthem performed.