It wouldn’t be a modern-day royal family event if Prince Louis didn’t steal the show, and today’s Trooping the Colour—King Charles’ first as monarch—was no exception. In full homage of the setting in which he found himself (it is a military parade, after all), Louis saluted the crowd assembled below from the Buckingham Palace balcony as he and his family took to the iconic locale to watch a flypast above, featuring around 70 different aircrafts, including the Red Arrows.
In addition to his salute to the well-wishers, Louis—as ever—was a full range of expressions and emotions as he enjoyed the day’s events. Trooping the Colour is the annual public birthday celebration for the monarch, held every June because of the U.K.’s generally favorable weather conditions. (The King’s actual birthday is in November; his mother, Queen Elizabeth, was born in April.)
