PRINCE Andrew will reportedly miss the Queen’s birthday parade again and will be replaced at the parade by an Afghan veteran.
The Prince, who still holds the honorary military title colonel of the Grenadier Guards, will be replaced at Trooping the Colour by Major General Roland Walker.
According to The Times, it is understood that the Queen has approved the amended plans for the June 12 parade with Walker taking Andrew’s place on the parade.
Trooping the Colours will mark the Queen’s 95th birthday.
In 2010, Walker’s vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device set by the Taliban in Helmand, Afghanistan.
Later that year he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order honour from the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke has previously met Walker and the Queen back in 2018 at Windsor to mark his appointment as colonel of the Grenadiers.
The decision comes amid continued scrutiny of Prince Andrew’s relationship with the late Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in prison in New York in 2019.
This will be the first significant event held by the Royal Family since the outbreak of coronavirus last March.
The Duke stepped back from public life in November 2019 after his BBC Newsnight interview about his links to dead paedo Jeffrey Epstein.
A senior royal source said: “He was an assiduous colonel but it has all been overshadowed by the other stuff.”
They added: “It’s a very difficult one for the Grenadiers and for the Queen.”
Buckingham Palace said nothing had changed since Andrew’s statement in November 2019.
The Palace has been contacted for comment.
