Prince Harry shares Meghan Markle’s awkward joke to Kate Middleton at Trooping the Colour which led to ‘yawning silence’
TROOPING the Colour is taking place today, but two members of the royal family who will not be in attendance are Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
The couple have attended previous years, but the tension between Meghan and Kate Middleton was reportedly brewing from the Duchess of Sussex’s first Trooping event.
Prince Harry claims Meghan cracked a joke at the 2018 celebrations which led to an awkward “silence”.
Kate had reportedly asked Meghan what she thought of the extravagant occasion, and Meghan had jokingly responded with “colourful.”
Prince Harry wrote in his tell-all memoir Spare: “A yawning silence threatened to swallow us all whole”.
The last time Harry and Meghan attended Trooping the Colour as working royals was in 2019.
In 2022 they both went to the event as non-working royals and Meghan was seen playfully shushing Zara Tindall’s eldest daughter along with the Queen’s great-granddaughter Savannah Phillips.
The event was cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic and in 2021 it was scaled down to a smaller event at Windsor Castle.
Prince Harry’s memoir documented the fall outs between Meghan and his family, and he accused William and Kate of “stereotyping” her.
Harry also claimed Princess Kate and Meghan Markle had a furious bust-up after the Duchess of Sussex made a comment about her sister-in-law’s hormones.
The Duke revealed that in the run up to the royal wedding in 2018, Meghan told the Princess of Wales that she must have “baby brain”.
Kate had given birth to Prince Louis just a month before.
During all three of her pregnancies, Kate suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum – excessive nausea and vomiting caused by a hormone imbalance.
Harry tells how Kate was upset – but that Meghan apologised and said that is how she speaks to her friends.
But Harry says William “pointed a finger at Meg”, then allegedly said: “Well, it’s rude, Meghan. These things are not done here.”
To which Meghan responded: “If you don’t mind, keep your finger out of my face.”
The Princess of Wales paid a touching tribute to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana with her outfit at Trooping the Colour today.