Prince William To Join King Charles On His Birthday Parade, Prince Harry Not Included

King Charles III will be joined by his eldest son, Prince William, on horseback in London during the monarch's birthday parade next year.

On Thursday, Buckingham Palace announced that the 74-year-old British monarch will continue the tradition of having a summer birthday parade, known as Trooping the Colour, and it will be held on June 17, according to a statement shared by HuffPost. King Charles celebrates his actual birthday on Nov. 14.

The parade will be held nearly a month after King Charles' coronation at Westminster Abbey on May 6.

"The Trooping of the Colour has marked the official birthday of the British sovereign for over 260 years," Buckingham Palace said, according to the outlet. "2023 will mark His Majesty King Charles III's first Trooping of the Colour as sovereign."

The King would be following in his late mother Queen Elizabeth II's footsteps, who also celebrated the annual event in June despite being born on April 21, according to People. The Queen passed away on Sept. 8 at the age of 96.

The tradition is believed to have begun during the reign of King George II in 1748. George II was born in October but commemorated his birthday at the same time as the celebration of British armed forces via Trooping of the Colour.

"Over 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians" will come together for "a great display of military precision, horsemanship and fanfare," the palace said.

King Charles' birthday parade will be led by the Regiments of the Household Division. Some royal family members, including the monarch and the Prince of Wales, will be participating on horseback, while others would be riding carriages from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards.

Queen Consort Camilla, 75, and Prince William's wife Kate Middleton will watch the traditional parade from carriages, the U.K.'s Evening Standard reported.

Senior royals will then gather at Buckingham Palace's balcony to watch a flypast by Royal Air Force jets and the Red Arrows display teams.

But the palace has yet to announce whether Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would be participating in the King's birthday celebration. Although the couple, who relinquished their roles as senior working royals in 2020, are reportedly invited to King Charles' coronation, further details about their involvement remain unclear.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's rumored feud with the royal family seems to be far from over.

Last year, Prince Harry, 38, and Markle, 41, made the headlines after their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which they alleged that a member of the royal family made racist comments and that the duchess did not receive mental health support from the palace. The duke also alleged that he was cut off financially by his father.

Recently, Prince Harry opened up about the "wedge" between him and his older brother, Prince William, in the Netflix docuseries "Harry & Meghan," which was released earlier this month.

Harry claimed that the conflict started when he first announced his departure from the royal family in 2020 in a family meeting at the royal's estate in Sandringham with his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth, his father King Charles and Prince William.

"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me," Prince Harry claimed in the fifth episode of the docuseries.

"The saddest part of it was this wedge created between myself and my brother. So that he's now on the institution's side, and part of that I get. I understand—that's his inheritance. So, to some extent, it's already ingrained in him that part of his responsibility is the survivability and the continuation of this institution," he added.