In video: the Irish Guards' vibrant tribute to Kate Middleton, absent from the St. Patrick's Day parade.

It was a first since 2012. The Irish Guards, however, gave him a moving “hip hip hooray”. The mother of George, Charlotte and Louis had also planned a little wink to make up for her absence: a video of the parade rehearsals posted on the Instagram account that she shares with her husband. Prince William, also absent from this 2024 edition, for his part confided that being colonel of the Irish Guard had been one of the “great honors of his life”