King Charles Attends Trooping the Colour Event After Kate Middleton Apologizes for Missing Review [Video]

King Charles is getting ready for his birthday parade with the Irish Guards.

Ahead of this weekend’s Trooping the Colour, the annual celebration of the British monarch’s birthday, the King presented the Irish Guards with the regiment’s new flag (known as “colours”) at Windsor Castle on June 10. The event kicked off with the Band of the Irish Guards marching into the castle’s Quadrangle via the George IV Gate led by their mascot an Irish wolfhound named Turlough Mor, who goes by the nickname “Seamus.”

The five regiments of the Foot Guards rotate who presents their flag at Trooping the Colour each year, and it is the Irish Guards’ turn to lead the parade through the streets of London.

Kate Middleton is the honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards, but she did not lead the Colonel’s Review on June 8 per tradition amid her cancer treatment. However, the Princess of Wales, 42, did send a letter …