
Lip reader confirms sweet question Princess Charlotte asks mum Kate Middleton
A lip reader has revealed the question Princess Charlotte asked Princess Kate during their Trooping the Colour carriage ride.
Kate Middleton and her three children Charlotte, Prince George and Prince Louis were met with cheers from the crowd when they first left Buckingham Palace in a carriage for the King's official birthday parade, reports the Daily Record.
The children and their mum waved to the crowds from their carriage as they followed the King and Queen down the Mall to Horse Guards Parade - with Louis grinning through the window.
In one sweet moment, Charlotte could be seen chatting to her mum as they made their way to the celebrations. One lip reader has said that the young princess had a pressing question for her mum.
According to professional lip reader Jeremy Freeman, Princess Charlotte said: "Who is it?" asking about a person in the crowd, Kate then replied and Charlotte then appeared to say: "Oh brilliant" before the mother and daughter giggled together.
The sweet moment was captured before the King and Queen led the Royal Family onto the balcony at Buckingham Palace to watch a flypast of military aviation.
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Charles and Camilla stood alongside the Prince and Princess of Wales, their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.
The force used a blend of sustainable aviation fuel and normal jet fuel for their engines, as well as a renewable biofuel for the smoke trails. The Royal Family waved one last time at the crowd before heading back into the Palace.
Meanwhile, Kate returned to a major Trooping the Colour duty alongside the King and Queen today. In her role as Colonel of the Irish Guards she took her seat on the dais alongside the King and Queen to watch the spectacular military parade at Horse Guards Parade.
In 2024 she sat upstairs in the Major General's office to watch the display with her children after marking her return to duty following the start of her cancer treatment. Today, Kate arrived at Horse Guards Parade today in an Ascot Landau carriage alongside her three children.
She looked stunning in a turquoise Catherine Walker coat dress, a hat by Juliette Botterill, her Irish Guards Regimental brooch and a pair of earrings that belonged to the late Queen before taking her seat on the parade ground.
At last year's Trooping the Colour, Kate returned for her first official public appearance since she revealed she had received a cancer diagnosis. She took pride of place on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the RAF flypast standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the King.
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