King Charles presents new colours to Kate's Irish Guards regiment as they prepare for the Trooping the Colour parade

King Charles III presented caller colours to the Irish Guards contiguous - the regiment for which his daughter-in-law the Princess of Wales became the Colonel past year.

The monarch inspected the guardsmen and officers connected parade astatine Windsor Castle before the Chaplain General consecrated the colours with a blessing.

The caller colours volition beryllium those trooped successful the Trooping the Colour astatine the King's authoritative day parade connected Horse Guards Parade successful London this Saturday.

Charles - Colonel successful Chief of the 7 Guards regiments of the Household Division - volition inspect the soldiers astatine the parade from a carriage alternatively than connected horseback.

The 75-year-old monarch has precocious returned to public-facing duties portion inactive receiving attraction for an undisclosed signifier of cancer.

MailOnline understands that Charles is not lasting successful for Kate contiguous - due to the fact that helium is Colonel successful Chief of the 7 Guards regiments, including the Irish Guards, and presumption of caller colours is by normal done by the Colonel successful Chief. 

In March 2023, Kate took implicit the relation of Colonel of the Irish Guards from her hubby Prince William.

The Princess sent a missive to the regiment to apologise for not being capable to instrumentality the salute and to privation them luck for the Colonel's Review – the last rehearsal for the King's day parade - successful London past Saturday, June 8.

Kate, who is undergoing chemotherapy aft a crab diagnosis, spoke of her pridefulness successful them and added that being Colonel 'remains an honour'.

The Princess was represented astatine the Colonel's Review by General James Bucknall, who acted arsenic the main inspecting serviceman of the time successful the princess's absence.

Colours - adorned with a regiment's emblems and conflict honours - were primitively utilized arsenic rallying points for troops connected the battlefield.

They inactive travel soldiers connected operations and, much visibly, connected ceremonial duties.

The presumption of caller colours to No 9 and No 12 Company started contiguous with the Band of the Irish Guards marching them into Windsor Castle.

They were led by the Irish Guards' regimental mascot - an Irish wolfhound named Turlough Mor but affectionately known arsenic Seamus.

This Saturday, the King volition beryllium accompanied by the Irish Guards Regimental Lieutenant Colonel, Major General Sir Christopher Ghika KCVO CBE.

There volition beryllium a royal salute and the nationalist anthem volition beryllium played.

During the Colonel's Review past Saturday, Seamus was led crossed the quadrate by a scarlet-coated drummer. The canine was presented to the regiment arsenic the soldiers lined up.

Field Officer successful Brigade Waiting Lieutenant Colonel James Coleby shouted orders to the regiment portion riding a achromatic equine named Onyx.

A mock-up of the royal carriage, emulating the 1 which volition clasp the King successful a week's time, arrived astatine Horse Guards Parade successful clip to scope the saluting basal astatine precisely 11am.

A royal salute was fixed and the nationalist anthem was played successful full. The Household Calvary and the Mounted Band processed astir the quadrate with the carriage.

Horses marched successful pairs successful beforehand and down the carriage, with 2 divisions successful beforehand and 2 down earlier the radical yet filed disconnected the parade and down the promenade to hole for the mock firing of a 41-gun salute, which volition instrumentality spot this Saturday.

A full of 250 musicians, 20 pipers, 240 subject moving horses and astir 1,000 dual-role soldiers of the British Army's Household Division took portion successful the lawsuit past Saturday.