Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Next Public Appearance Will Be an Important One

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry still have a few things to take care of before they jet off on a much-deserved honeymoon. On Tuesday, only a few days after their gorgeous wedding in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, they made their first public appearance as newlyweds at a celebration at the Buckingham Palace Gardens in honor of Harry's father Prince Charles. And according to People, Markle and Prince Harry's next post-wedding, pre-honeymoon official royal outing will be at yet another family birthday party: Queen Elizabeth's annual Trooping the Colour celebration, which takes place each June, several weeks after her actual April 21 birth date.

During the Trooping the Colour event, which falls on June 9 this year, Queen Elizabeth is honored with a military parade and royal salute, and rides in a carriage from Buckingham Palace to the nearby Horse Guards Parade grounds, where she inspects the troops and returns the salute. The rest of the family makes the trip with their matriarch, with royal colonels Prince Charles and Prince William riding alongside her carriage on horseback, and everyone else, including Prince Harry, Duchess Camilla, and Kate Middleton, following in a procession of carriages.

It's clear that Markle is already completely comfortable attending formal events with her husband's family. At Tuesday's garden party, she wore a gorgeous pale pink Goat dress and Philip Treacy hat, shared a giggle with Prince Harry's father and stepmother when a bee attempted to dive-bomb Harry's face during his speech, and showed some subtle PDA to Prince Harry as they headed back into the palace. Clearly, she'll have no problem whatsoever fitting into the family pics on the Buckingham Palace balcony at the end of this year's Trooping the Colour ceremony.

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