Rejoice good times, come on!
In accordance with body language expert Judi James, the royal family looked quite disjointed while they posed together on the balcony during King Charles’ seventy fifth birthday celebration often called Trooping the Color last month.
“The composition of this ‘slimmed down’ royal balcony pose looks like a gappy smile with several teeth missing,” James boldly told the Day by day Express of the stark contrast to previous years’ assemblies.
This 12 months, only working members of the royal family were allowed on the balcony at Buckingham Palace throughout the event, which implies that cousins Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie and Zara Tindall weren’t permitted.
“As a substitute of a smaller, tighter, loyal group it looks like five factions in apparent conflict: Anne and Tim stand awkwardly at one end; William and Kate pose in a glittering but barely cordoned-off family group; Charles and Camilla take all of the goodwill from the crowds in the center; Edward and Sophie try hard to create some sociable links with the Gloucesters at the opposite end,” James claimed to the outlet.
“Any ‘One united family group’ vibe appears to be totally lacking,” James added.
During Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the group was much larger, as she had all the members of the royal family — each working and nonworking — join her on the balcony.
James noted that under her tenure, people looked “animated and excited.”
Queen Elizabeth died last September on the age of 96 and had reigned for 70 years on the time of her death.
The body language expert also identified that the sparse lineup only drew more attention to those that were missing from the family — like estranged Prince Harry.
“The gaps only recall to mind the people who find themselves missing,” James told the outlet. “Charles once had a mother, father, brother, son and his son’s family to mingle with.
“But each of the gaps now seems to inform its own tragic or murky tale,” she said. “The dynasty seems to have been dismissed or scattered, leaving this tentative group that’s left looking like uneasy survivors of a business cull.”
The Post reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.
King Charles’ idea of a “slimmed down monarchy” — which he’s bidding for in an effort to maintain costs down and have a more modern image of the family, per the Financial Times — comes during a time when there’s some apparent tension between members of the royal family.
In 2019, Prince Andrew resigned from his role as a working member of the royal family over his ties to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2022, he was stripped from his military titles and royal patronages.
An insider claimed to the Mail on Sunday in 2022 that King Charles told him that he would never return to royal life during a morning meeting, which made him weep.
“On the meeting, Charles told him that he can go off and have a very good life, a pleasant life, but that his public life as a royal is at an end. He was told, ‘You have got to just accept this,’” the insider said.
And, in January, King Charles’ son, Prince Harry, 38, released a tell-all memoir titled, “Spare,” by which he made allegations about different family members.
Within the book, he alleged that his brother, Prince William, 41, had physically “attacked” him over a spat about his wife, Meghan Markle, in 2019, and even branded the sibling as his “arch-nemesis.”
Prince Harry also wrote that his stepmother, Queen Camilla, 75, leaked stories about members of the royal family to the press to make herself look higher.
He even claimed that his father was “jealous” of Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton, 41.
Nonetheless, despite all the drama, Day by day Express royal reporter and expert Richard Palmer claimed during an episode of the Day by day Express’ Royal Round Up last month that King Charles’ was “keen” to fix the rift between himself and Prince Harry’s family.
“I’m sure the King would welcome them back,” Palmer alleged throughout the episode.
“I mean… he’s quite keen to heal that family rift,” he continued. “But, you already know, it’s obviously very raw in the meanwhile and it’s very noticeable. While I’d say he’s keen to heal that rift, he hasn’t met his son the last two times he’s been over to the UK.”
