It is onerous to imagine that Princess Charlotte attended her first Trooping the Color means again in 2016. She’s spent a number of her younger life within the presence of roaring crowds at royal spectacles, and she or he’s change into remarkably adept at composing herself in entrance of the cameras that document her household’s each transfer. However throughout Trooping the Color 2025, the 10-year-old reminded her adoring public that she’s nonetheless only a child throughout a feisty change together with her mother.

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Whereas sitting beside her mom of their open carriage, Charlotte flashed an enormous smile on the cheering crowd just like the seasoned Trooping the Color professional that she is. It is unclear what she and Kate Middleton have been chatting about as they rolled by the onlookers and waved, however we suppose that Charlotte responded to one thing Kate stated with a single phrase: “No.”

A candy mom and daughter second between the Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte #TroopingTheColour pic.twitter.com/CBpIomgNA3

— Belle (@RoyallyBelle_) June 14, 2025

Now, Kate was laughing earlier than Charlotte uttered the phrase of negation, so it is doable they have been simply having a playful change. Maybe Kate jokingly requested her one thing absurd, like if she’d slightly get out and stroll the remainder of the route, which might clarify why Charlotte was grinning when she responded to her mom. And talking of that smile, previous photographs of Charlotte have gotten everybody speaking about how intently she resembles one among her dad and mom, and everybody was saying the identical factor after her Trooping the Color look.

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On X, some followers of the royal fam could not recover from how a lot Princess Charlotte favors Prince William (when she smiles, the resemblance is absolutely uncanny, and she or he was doing a number of that in Trooping the Color 2025). “Charlotte appears precisely like William. Lifeless ringer. The boys I am unable to inform. They appear extra of a mixture. Charlotte is pure William,” one particular person wrote. “Princess Charlotte is Prince William’s mini me,” learn one other put up. “William actually stated copy and paste,” a 3rd commenter opined. “She appears [just] like her dad at that age however with extra swagger that comes from being raised in a secure house with a stable basis.”

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Whereas she would possibly bodily look a bit extra like her dad, Charlotte has clearly inherited her mom’s trend sense. Kate Middleton’s Trooping the Colour gown was a Catherine Walker design in a vibrant aqua hue, and Charlotte’s outfit was a lighter shade of the identical shade. The mom and daughter additionally accessorized their vibrant and cheery appears with significant brooches. Kate is the Colonel-in-Chief of the Irish Guards, so she wore the unit’s regimental brooch. As for Charlotte, who might need been Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite grandchild, she paid tribute to the late monarch with a horseshoe-shaped brooch gifted to her by her grandmother. It clearly has a number of sentimental worth to Charlotte, as she additionally wore it to Elizabeth’s 2022 funeral.

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There have been so many memorable Trooping the Color moments over time, however none are extra entertaining than those who contain the youngest royals. When the Wales youngsters gathered along with their household on the Buckingham Palace balcony in 2024, Princess Charlotte reportedly tried to get her youthful brother, Prince Louis, to cease dancing. Lip reader Nicola Hickling advised the Mirror that he responded by saying, “I will not.” Nevertheless, Charlotte wasn’t about to take no for a solution (regardless of apparently being keen on the phrase herself). “Do as you are advised,” she instructed Louis, to which he shot again, “Nope.”

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This yr, it was Prince George who took it upon himself to maintain his youngest sibling in verify. Based on Folks, Louis was fortunately waving away on the crowd throughout a second when the remainder of the royal household was not. Apparently, George determined that this merely would not do and advised him to “cease.” Louis did a a lot better job minding his older bro, as he instantly ceased waving as an alternative of sassing him again.

Clearly, Charlotte made the suitable name by deciding to focus extra on her mother than her child brother’s antics this yr. She was photographed gazing adoringly at Kate greater than as soon as, and followers beloved seeing their shut mother-daughter bond. “Have a look at Charlotte her mum. Such pleasure and happiness,” one particular person posted on X, whereas one other deemed Charlotte’s apparent admiration for her mom “priceless.”

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