Unveiled: Princess Kate’s harsh response to Meghan Markle’s trooping-the-colour joke

Meghan Markle attempted to crack a lighthearted joke during her 2018 Trooping the Colour debut.

Prince Harry claims that Meghan Markle tried to crack a lighter joke during her first Trooping the Colour in 2018, just after entering the Royal Family, and it didn’t go down well.

A few weeks had passed since Harry and Meghan’s A-list wedding in Windsor, and the Duchess was left looking flushed at the occasion.

Harry revealed in his shocking memoir, Spare, that Meghan attempted to joke about with Princess Kate, but it was met with a harsh “yawning silence” rather than the expected response.

When bride Meghan was asked by Princess Kate what she thought of her first Trooping the Colour, she simply said, “Colourful.”
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At the Trooping the Colour ceremony, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had joined the country and the monarchy for the first time in honouring the late Queen’s official birthday.

Meghan’s response was succinct and direct, but, as Harry noted in his memoir, it did not meet with approval. The words “a yawning silence threatened to swallow us all whole” were Harry’s explanation.

Just three weeks after their nuptials, the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex were much anticipated by the sizable crowds that flocked to Horse Guards Parade on Queen Elizabeth II’s official birthday. Meghan arrived on Horse Guards Parade in a carriage with Harry and the late Queen’s cousin, the Duke of Kent, to experience the pomp and circumstance of the occasion for the first time.
Harry reports that behind the scenes, tensions were much higher even though Meghan was observed chit-chatting with Kate, William, and Camilla on the balcony.

Though Kate wore a baby blue dress by Alexander McQueen and a Juliette Botterill hat, Meghan chose to wear a blush off-the-shoulder dress by Carolina Herrera.Prince Harry and Meghan will not be attending Trooping the Colour this year, which is the traditional commemoration of Harry’s father, King Charles, marking his second birthday, after they resigned as senior working royals in 2020.