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Based on body language expert Judi James, the royal family looked pretty chaotic as they posed together on the balcony at King Charles’s seventy fifth birthday celebration often known as Trooping the Color last month.
“The composition of this ‘slimmed down’ regal pose from the balcony looks like the frosting on a smile without a few teeth” – James boldly told the Each day Express in stark contrast to the assemblies of previous years.
This yr, only working members of the royal family were allowed on the Buckingham Palace balcony during the event, meaning cousins Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie and Zara Tindall weren’t allowed in.
“As an alternative of a smaller, tight-knit, loyal group, it looks like five factions in apparent conflict: Anne and Tim stand awkwardly at one end; William and Kate pose in a sparkling but somewhat cordoned-off family group; Charles and Camilla take all the goodwill from the crowds inside; Edward and Sophie try hard to create some social ties with the Gloucesters on the other end,” James told the outlet.
![A body language expert noted that the crowd on the Buckingham Palace balcony at Trooping the Color 2023 looked quite modest.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000013866459.jpg?w=1024)
![James likened it to the larger crowd that Queen Elizabeth II gathered on the balcony during her reign, as she allowed all members of the royal family to join her - not just working ones.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000013866462.jpg?w=1024)
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“The ‘One United Family Group’ vibe is totally missing,” added James.
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the crowd was much larger as all members of the royal family – each working and non-working – joined her on the balcony.
James remarked that individuals looked “invigorated and excited” under her rule.
Queen Elizabeth died last September at the age of 96 and had reigned for 70 years at the time of her death.
The body language expert also identified that the rare lineup only drew more attention to those missing from the family – like the estranged Prince Harry.
“The gaps only recall to mind missing people,” James told the outlet. “Karol once had a mother, father, brother, son and son’s family to mingle with.
![She noted that people can point out the gaps in the family during Trooping the Color.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000013866463.jpg?w=1024)
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“But each of the loopholes now seems to inform its own tragic or dark story,” she said. “The dynasty seems to have been rejected or dispersed, leaving this precarious group who appear to be restless survivors of a business carnage.”
The Post contacted 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 Financial Times — comes at a time when there may be some tension between the members of the royal family.
In 2019, Prince Andrew stepped down as a working member of the royal family attributable to his ties to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2022, he was stripped of his military titles and royal patronage.
![There has been a lot of tension in the royal family in recent years.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000013866899.jpg?w=1024)
The informant claimed that Mail on Sunday in 2022, King Charles told him he would never return to royal life during a morning meeting, which made him cry.
“At the meeting, Charles told him that he could leave and have a good life, a nice life, but his public life as a member of the royal family was coming to an end. He was told, “You will have to just accept it,” the source said.
And in January, King Charles’s son, 38-year-old Prince Harry, published a diary entitled “Spare” by which he made allegations against various members of the family.
In the book, he claimed that his brother, 41-year-old Prince William, physically “attacked” him during an argument over his wife, Meghan Markle, in 2019 and even called the siblings his “arch-nemesis”.
![More allegations about the family came to light in January of Prince Harry](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000013866466.jpg?w=1024)
Prince Harry also wrote that his stepmother, Queen Camilla, 75, leaked stories about royals to the press to make herself look higher.
He even claimed that his father was “jealous” of Prince William and his wife, 41-year-old Kate Middleton.
Nonetheless, despite all the drama, Royal Each day Express reporter and pundit Richard Palmer argued during the episode Royal Round Up Each day Express last month that King Charles was “willing” to fix the rift between him and Prince Harry’s family.
“I’m sure the king would welcome them back,” Palmer claimed during the episode.
“I mean…he’s very desirous to heal this family rift,” he continued. “But you understand, right away it’s obviously very raw and really noticeable. While I’d say he desires to heal the gap, he has not met his son on his last two visits to the UK.”