The King's official birthday parade - Trooping the Colour - is set to take place later today and will culminate in a Royal Family balcony appearance, but it will only be for select royals

Trooping the Colour was once an affair that saw the balcony at Buckingham Palace brimming with royals - including all the descendants and more distant relatives.

EXCLUSIVE: Trooping the Colour highlights the pomp and pageantry for which the House of Windsor is known best, but a major cloud hangs over the event this year as the public…

The King's official birthday parade - Trooping the Colour - is set to take place later today and will culminate in a Royal Family balcony appearance, but it will only be for…

The colour – regimental flag – being trooped this year is the King’s Colour of the Grenadier Guards

Prince William was given a stern telling-off by the late Queen Elizabeth II during the 2016 Trooping the Colour, after he disappeared from the crowd's view

Watch live as Britain marks King Charles III’s official birthday with the iconic Trooping the Colour ceremony on Saturday (13 June).