Here's Why Most Royals Wore The Color Blue For Trooping The Colour

It's no secret that Queen Elizabeth's favorite color is blue. In 2012, Vogue conducted the ultimate study of the monarch's outfits over a year (via the Daily Mail) and concluded that she'd worn numerous shades of blue 29% of the time. Among purple and violet, blue is a color strongly associated with royalty — and the queen's wardrobe choice is undoubtedly an example of that trend (via The New York Times).

Looking back over the many ceremonies she's attended over the years (via Insider), a large proportion of the queen's royal attire consists of various shades of blue, most recently sporting an embroidered jacket for the 2021 Trooping of the Colour followed by a periwinkle blue ensemble for the 2022 fly-past.

But Her Majesty the Queen wasn't the only member of the royal family to be wearing blue on the balcony. In fact, her three great-grandchildren and the Duchess of Cornwall were also sporting different shades of her favorite color.