As the funeral plans for the Duke of Edinburgh firm up, there has been a lot of energy towards who will walk behind Philip’s casket. I know, it sounds morbid to be focusing on these kinds of things, but the Windsor klan loves their protocol and they love a public display of mourning. So even though Prince Charles and Prince William are the “future kings,” apparently there’s an expectation that William and Harry will walk “shoulder to shoulder.” I would think that William would put up a fight about that for many reasons, but no one seems to be putting much energy into that.
Princes William and Harry will reunite as they walk behind their grandfather’s coffin at his funeral in a week’s time. The brothers are expected to stand shoulder to shoulder as they form part of the royal procession at the service for the Duke of Edinburgh in Windsor on Saturday.
It will be the first time the pair will be seen together since Harry’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey – in which he claimed his older brother was ‘trapped’ inside the Monarchy. However, the Duchess of Sussex, who is pregnant with the couple’s second child at home in California, will not be attending following medical advice.
Harry’s attendance could be his chance to repair the ‘deep damage’ caused by his and Meghan’s sit-down with Oprah, royal experts said today – as he spoke to senior members of the Royal Family ahead of his return to Britain. A source told the Mail on Sunday that, while tensions have been ‘high’ following the fallout from the Oprah interview on March 7, the Royal Family are ‘united in grief’ following Prince Philip’s death.
The Duke will be taken to St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on a Land Rover he helped to design, and will be flanked by pall bearers from the Royal Marines, Regiments, Corps and Air Stations. Immediately behind the Land Rover, the Prince of Wales and other members of the family, likely to be the Duke’s other children and some of his grandchildren including Harry and William, will proceed on foot. Whether the unity will prove more than a public façade remains to be seen, but some royal sources hope that the brothers’ first meeting for more than a year could lead to some kind of reconciliation.
Speaking of William’s reunion with his brother, a source told the Mail on Sunday: ‘All eyes will be on William and Harry at the funeral. This is the first time we’re going to see them together since Harry and Meghan left for their new life in America. There has been so much bad blood but everyone is hoping that, perhaps, this will mark the beginning of a reconciliation.’
The sourced added that, even though tensions have been ‘high’, the Royal Family are ‘united in grief’.
‘Harry was told the news about his grandfather at the same time as other members of the family.’
Prince Charles will walk alongside his sons as they follow the Land Rover on its journey to St George’s Chapel. The source added: ‘They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Everyone will be watching the funeral closely to see the body language between the brothers.’
The way they’re talking, it’s almost as if they’re hoping a fistfight breaks out at the funeral. Which, hell, it could happen. There’s always drama at a funeral, even funerals which have a limited attendance because of pandemic protocols. We could witness the first-ever princely fist-fight as they brawl in the lane behind Philip’s casket. It won’t happen though. What will happen is that William’s people will leak about how Harry begged for forgiveness for being so hot, happy and free and William didn’t say a word to him. Then Harry will call Gayle King and tell her what really happened next week.
Oh, I bet Kate inserts herself in between the brothers. Don’t you think?
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At the very least, I hope Charles stands in between them. There’s something about Harry having to stand next to William that really bothers me.
It bothers me as well. For all of this talk about William being the dutiful future king and Harry’s jealousy of that, they want Harry to stand next to him to make William look good. That’s what it’s all about. He needs Harry for his image. The entire monarchy needs Harry to rehab them all. Everything rests on Harry to put his feelings aside for them to look good.
Which is incredibly frustrating. Don’t get me wrong i trust harry but i really hope he won’t budge. Obviously he won’t make a scene at the funeral. But i hope he will be civil and NOT friendly.
What I was thinking. Will Camilla walk with Charles? If I were Harry I would put C&C between me and W&K if I had to walk by family unit. If it’s by choice, I would bet he would walk with B&E.
I’m thinking spouses will follow behind or something, and the procession immediately behind the casket will just be children and grandchildren. That’s what it should be at any rate IMO.
I was thinking, if he could, he would walk with the York sisters as well. So frustrating to have to be next to someone that you love, but can’t stand at the same time.
Harry should not be forced to walk next to PWT, especially not after that psychotic letter from Wooten.
I hope Harry uses his time in the UK to mourn his grandfather whom I’m sure he loved dearly, pay his respects and fly home safely back to his family as soon as he is able to. He doesn’t need to get involved in any of the tabloid fodder his odious “brother” will no doubt want to try to bait him in to. You just know Bullyam has been put on notice by his press bedmates that he is expected to deliver some sort of “succession humiliation porn” against Harry for them to salivate over and write about for weeks, hence why they are already drooling over what Harry will be forced to wear and where he will sit and who he will walk next to. I hope Harry can continue to rise above any provocation and leave the rest of the Windsor kkklan to the tacky PR grubbing behaviour they plan to display at this funeral.
Exactly. I do think he’ll talk with his father though. Not about any of the issues but just in a consoling way. He obviously still loves him. He’ll likely say ‘hello’ to William and that’s about it.
I can see William baiting Harry to try to get him to react in public so one of William’s 🐀Rota pals can get a shot of that. Hope Harry just chills and stays in the lane that’s best for him. Let William show his manipulative ass.
EXACTLY.
God’s been good to Meghan taking Philip away in the late stage of her pregnancy so there’s no question of her coming. And I think for Harry, He will arrange for a driving, pelting rain on Sat. afternoon forcing all the mourners into their Range Rovers and royal Bentleys so none of this procession nonsense will even matter.
I like that idea, Harper.
Wishful thinking, I’m afraid. I checked the weather and it’s going to be nice, 55° and sunny, not a cloud in sight which is unfortunate. Still, got it right for Meghan.
From your lips to God’s ears.
Honestly, Charles is the son of the deceased so it makes more sense for the sons to flank Charles instead of being next to each other (even if they were all on the best of terms)
Given the pandemic, none of them should be standing or walking anywhere near each other. All need to be masked and a minimum of two metres apart.
I agree! Not that I expect any of them to comply with scientific recommendations or governmental rules.
I know it’s the death of a major public figure, and a father, husband, grandfather, etc., but it’s really not the time for anyone to be relaxing health and safety standards.
Charles first, with his ciblings, then behind the war brothers and the other grandchildren not in direct line, and kate will want to get in between the brothers because the competition isnt around and the papers will say that kingmaker top ceo watie katie has single handledly reconciled both the brothers by wearing a peace costume which could possibly be a british flag dress with a united stated fascinator.
Bibi – rofling over here! Literal dressing FTW
Yeah, I think KAISER’s right when she says Kate will try to insert herself in a photo op between William and Harry. In her small little mind, I’m sure she’ll see that as a Fu-k You to Meghan. I so hope Harry avoids that shot.
As to Kate’s costume (because she’s always in costume), I’m sure it will be black with very large buttons, military details, and brand spanking new.
It’s interesting to consider that Kate could wear her version of a fashion uniform since Harry is prohibited from wearing his. Maybe as a sly dig to Harry and show of unity with William. Because she does love her epaulets, fringes and military accoutrements she’s worn on other occasions.
Good grief! They lost me at the bit about it being Harry’s chance to repair the damage blah blah blah. How about they set about repairing the damage they’ve done by being abusive racist fossils?
So, this funeral won’t be about the Duke at all, according to the Mail? It”ll be all about the Other Brother and his petulance toward the Succesful Brother who escaped the toxicity. I see.
I don’t get it. Prince Phillip has other kids and grandchildren. Do they not count?
Apparently Prince Philip himself barely counts anymore, if all this ridiculousness is to be believed.
I suppose if protocol dictates that person X walks next to person Y and that doesn’t happen that could be a ‘story’, but to see the media whipping themselves into a lather over rumors and supposition is really pathetic. At the end of the day this is a funeral, the lack of respect is annoying. Let them mourn in peace (and I say this as someone who is generally not a fan of monarchies.)
Philip doesn’t matter anymore. He already served his purpose as emotional blackmail for the press and royals to try to force the Sussexes to pull the Oprah interview and then as a stick to beat Harry and Meghan into shame for ruining his recovery. They were hoping he would die right after it aired so they could scream for months about how Meghan pushed the 99-year-old ill man who recently had a major surgery into an early grave, but he dared to hang on for another month and so now they are free to make his funeral all about Harry and Meghan despite telling Harry and Meghan how awful they are for making it about themselves.
PEARL GREY, I bow to your wisdom.
The honest truth is that no, they don’t matter. If they’re there great, if not no one will really notice. That’s the problem with primogeniture, especially in royal families. The firstborn inherits the title and will always be the most important person in their familial generation. As you get farther away from the top job you’re importance declines exponentially. I promise you the only other family member anyone cares about walking behind the casket is Andrew…. and that’s for a whole different reason.
Yep. For all we know Peter as the eldest grandchild and also Zara as the children of the daughter were the favourites. The idea that the children of the heir of the most important in the personal family context is ridiculous.
Agreed.
This reads like deranged fan fiction. They’re really setting all these expectations of Harry like he’ll suddenly become the rota’s bitch because he’s back in the UK for a hot five minutes.
And sadly, this is a preview of what it would/will be like any time Harry comes to the UK for anything.
I know the BM thinks this makes Harry look bad, but to me it makes him look like the most important person there. There are more stories about Harry’s attendance than there are stories about the queen and it’s her husband that passed! Hell, there are more takes about Harry than the entire family combined. And what’s with the radio silence form W&K. Nobody has really been mentioning other than there relationship to Harry? Something is out of place with that.
@JT i was wondering the same thing regarding will & kate. They’ve been unusually silent. Not one “this is a great loss” while everybody else has been doing interviews.
I’m sort of surprised they haven’t released a picture of William with Philip (like Anne did) with a note about what he meant. It makes me wonder if they have finally been told to stand down?
ETA HAHAHAHA I just checked instagram and the first thing in my stream is a post from KP with a picture of George and Philip lololol. Okay so there we go.
(They didnt have a picture of William and Philip?)
Becks1- The photo of Phil/George was taken by Kate. She wants to get $$$$ for its use, is my guess.
I wonder if Kate visited TQ and/or PP alone with the kids while Willy was “gardening” in Norfolk?
@Becks1Did a quick google image search and there don’t seem to be many photos of Prince Philip with either Will or Harry, but plenty with Penny.
And this is just the dress rehearsal. Get ready for the full show when the queen dies.
That is utter hatefulness. Harry isn’t even allowed to wear his military uniform as he has been booted from all service. So he should stand in the church with all of the “non-working Royals.” Phillip has 4 children who can walk behind the casket as well as a FFK William the Incandescent. If this is true or was even suggested it is an insult to Phillip because it means nothing about this involves him, it is all about the dreadful children he left behind. Poor Harry
If anything, it highlights the silliness of these ceremonial military uniforms. Harry and Andrew are the only ones who have ACTUALLY served in active duty, and they’ll be in suits. Everyone else is basically wearing an elaborate costume.
I made a similar comment elsewhere. The DM is frothing at the mouth at the insult to Harry but to the rest of the world they look like fools in meaningless costuremes while the two war veterens are only allowed to wear suits. The rf will be laughingstocks.
Harry will do whatever was Philip and the Queen’s wish is. He will remain civil but don’t expect a miracle reconciliation.
If I had to guess, Harry will visit the Queen on Friday (possibly with his father), and that will be the extent of any potential face to face.
I really hope Harry will get to visit the queen! And her courtiers don’t change her schedule at the last minute like that one time.
It’s not going to happen but how great would it be if the Queen put Harry beside her?! She’s the one now missing an other half and better H than Andrew….
@The Hench I would love to see a repeat of the snubbing Will and Kate received at the end of the train tour and rollout of the MAG7. It won’t in the processional behind the casket, but may at some point during the proceedings. I can totally see the Queen being all smiles for Harry while ignoring W&K. The tabloids will ignore it like it didn’t happen just like they did the train tour.
Will wants the Middleton’s there because he knows his family can’t stand him.
I think this is what will happen too – that Harry will visit the Queen and his father on Friday, go to the funeral on Saturday, and then leave right after the funeral.
He won’t leave right after. He needs a negative covid test to go back to the US. He would have to wait for that before he can fly so I suspect he will be there for 1-2 days after the funeral or that he might even stay until the queens birthday
Okay, but I think he will leave as soon as he is able to do so.
I doubt he’d hang around for an extra 10 days for his grandmother’s birthday, especially with a pregnant wife and young child at home.
Snuffles, I doubt there will be a visit with the Queen as he should be in quarantine.
he’ll be released from quarantine in time for the funeral so he could very well visit with his granny after the funeral after the funeral
LOL. Harry will be cordial. But they won’t be shoulder to shoulder until baldy apologizes
“ Harry’s attendance could be his chance to repair the ‘deep damage’ caused by his and Meghan’s sit-down with Oprah, royal experts said today.”
It is for the Royal Family to repair the deep damage that THEY did. Not Harry.
Not to mention that the damage had already been done by the royals a whole year prior to oprah. And that they doubled down since then instead of just let them be.
I was just going to say something similar. The issue isn’t the interview, the issue is the behavior that led to the interview, and that’s on the royals. (meaning if you didnt “have concerns” about Archie’s skin color and express those concerns to Harry, if you didnt take away security, if you didnt refuse to protect Meghan in the press, if you didn’t refuse to get her mental health treatment, etc – there wouldn’t have been anything for Harry and Meghan to share with Oprah.) It’s not up to Harry to repair the damage “caused” by the interview, because the damage was caused long before that.
It’s like the Bob Loblaw commercial in Arrested Development: “Why should you have to go to jail for a crime someone else…noticed?”
“ Harry’s attendance could be his chance to repair the ‘deep damage’ caused by his and Meghan’s sit-down with Oprah, royal experts said today.”
It is for the Royal Family to repair the deep damage that THEY did. Not Harry.
If I was the BRF right now, I’d give Harry everything he wants. And gag Will.
After the funeral, issue a statement that the death of Philip has left a hole and the whole family wants to apologize to Meg and Harry for not giving them enough support and for any racism they experienced. Say the whole family wants and is working to do better with respect to race issues and they hope that Meg and Harry accept their apology. Then announce that William and Harry have used the time of mourning to patch things up, with William admitting he made insensitive racial remarks (color of Archie) but that he didn’t mean to hurt, and he knows better now and that with the statue unveilI have coming up, he’s eager to embrace his brother and his brother’s wife, who both exemplify Diana’s goodness. Let Kate admit that the crying story happened like Meg said and she is sorry it was never corrected. Have the family say that due to their work with mental health charities, they should have been more attentive to Meg’s mental health and that they are sorry she was not given proper care by them when she was suicidal.
Then, say Harry and Meg will return to part-time duties, but with their own income stream and no royal rota presence at any of their events because the rota caused too many problems. Announce that Harry and Meg will base in Montecito most of the year but return for summers to do their work in the UK.
Agree to do all this. Then shut Will up and keep him shut.
Not sure this would be good for Harry, but if you’re the RF, then this should be your plan. But it won’t be, even if Harry would agree. Instead, we’ll get more stories of how Harry wouldn’t apologize and William is incandescent.
These folks are so bad at PR
This is the only way the funeral should be used as but im afraid that the royals just don’t get it. With prince philips death they are trying to scrub themselves clean of any accountability.
@Rapunzel, great post. But no way are they going to want to spend summers away from Santa Barbara!
@Rapunzel perfectly stated! Indeed, this would be a dream come true.
Your response is what any decent PR person would suggest, but the royals are not known for being smart or reasonable. They will continue to do what they are doing, which is to appease a rage monster, whatever the cost, and hope the veneer of respectability they bought from the media, paper thin that it is, remains whole.
A funny thing: if a group of pr people gamed out the worst possible tactics to take for the RF, as a joke, their responses wouldn’t differ much from what the RF and minions are actively doing.
Wow having seen William’s tribute to his grandfather which seems to have lots of subliminal shade..yeah doesn’t spell wanting to reconcile. Also makes you think that Wootton’s open letter was voicing some of his thoughts. Sad.
And yeah funny after a four year smear campaign & after helping the Mail’s defence, the firm is being recast as victims because of the Oprah interview
Can you imagine them doing a pull-out magazine cover with the entire family, and having that “letter”/announcement as the centerpiece. Would be groundbreaking and brilliant.
@Rapunzel should be getting paid for this.
But of course, the RF isn’t smart enough to use this mourning period for this purpose. Mourning and losing a loved one can sometimes bring clarity (or at least the appearance of), and this would be a perfect time for them to have a come-to-Jesus moment and reset the way things have been.
They may stand shoulder to shoulder, but it’s going to be a very cold shoulder from Harry. He didn’t even speak to his brother to talk about the funeral. He is going to be cordial and then go back to his wife and child.
Lauren, my first thought when I read the shoulder to shoulder description was that they’re trying to recreate Diana’s funeral but putting the brothers side by side. Really? I think since Harry is no longer a working royal, he should be with the York sisters. It makes sense that would be the case. Will we actually know? I though this was going to be a small and private funeral. I think Harry will be more than capable of handling his family. He’s been away for 13 months and (I suspect) he’s been in therapy. He’s more than prepared.
In terms of “drama”, it’ll most likely be like the CW Day 2020. Some ignore Harry but he’ll be friendly and chatty with some family members.
But it’s also a somber occasion so hopefully everyone knows that this time isn’t the right time to start airing out grievances over actions and behaviours.
As I said yesterday the media (and I’m seeing US media do it too) have shifted focus from commemorating Philip to make occasion about Harry reconciling with his brother. The body language experts will be getting PAID. It’s really gross. Let’s hope the courtiers can put aside pettiness and the family can actually do what they are supposedly good at- being dutiful& respectful (so unlike at the commonwealth day service last year). also hope they can support the queen & each other but nobody is forced to perform forgiveness etc for the cameras.
It should be totally private really if Philip didn’t want any fuss but gotta give the media what they want.
Again, and louder for the people in the back: THE DAMAGE 👏 WAS 👏 *NOT* 👏 CAUSED 👏 BY 👏 THE 👏 INTERVIEW 👏 ABOUT 👏 BULLYING. 👏 THE DAMAGE 👏 WAS 👏 CAUSED 👏 BY 👏 THE 👏 BULLYING 👏
I’m hoping they’re on opposite sides of the quire and never in frame together.
If Harry was gonna punch William it would’ve been at the height of the whole thing. I think Harry has calmed down and can stand next to his brother without punching him. Though I’d love to see it tbh.
Harry would mop the floor with Willileaks.
They say the opposite of love isn’t hate but apathy. I think Harry does love William, he’s said as much, but I do think he’s moved closer to apathy than sheer anger. He seemed content enough with ‘space’. It’s William who’s always incandescent.
Harry has faced worse than the likes of Other Brother, and as Harry has nothing to apologize for, I expect they will allow the pomp of the circumstance create a natural distance between them. then follow the ceremony with perfunctory farewells.
Well, generally speaking there’s nothing worse than betrayal, especially the betrayal of the family member, the only brother he has. Such thing cuts deep.
I see Carole and William are leaking crap to the Mail again. Harry is coming to town to pay his respects to his grandfather. He’s not coming to town to reconcile with William, especially since reconciliation means subjugation to William.
I don’t understand why Harry can’t wear his military uniform. He was military. He may not have those military honors from the Queen, but he obtained the rank of Captain in the Army.
Retired military are allowed to wear their uniforms at certain occasions, like funerals, with permission from the Ministry of Defense.
Thanks, nota!
So a year ago I would have said that we wouldn’t see anything at the funeral – they would all be somber and respectful, nothing really to see with body language etc. But after seeing how William and Kate behaved at the commonwealth day service…..there is definitely going to be some tension here.
I hope someone talks to William and Kate and reminds them that this funeral is not about them and to not make it about them by their poor behavior.
My guess is we’re going to have a replay of the Commonwealth Day incident: Kate and William will glare at Harry while Harry stays away from his brother and hangs out with a friendly cousin (Eugenie? Zara?) the whole time.
I expect Sophie to pull a bitch card, in her public support of W&K. She’ll either cold shoulder Harry, or be OTT effusive. Making it clear she loves and welcomes him, but his wife and children are offensive to her. As long as she kowtows to W&K, they advocate to Charles to keep Edward and Sophie on the dole.
This makes me think back to Harry’s description of walking behind his mother’s casket and feeling as though he wasn’t able to cry, maybe not really understanding what was going on. I hope he’s able to get some closure here now that he’s an adult and reportedly been through therapy.
I wonder where these stories about the brothers suddenly reconciling are coming from? If I were William, I wouldn’t invite the comparisons, frankly. I’ll bet Kate can’t wait to get a photo with the old “trio” back together though.
They all seem to be conveniently forgetting that it was Harry’s decision to leave, and his family do nothing but prove him right with every move they make.
I’m so disturbed by the narrative that tensions are high BECAUSE of Harry doing the “bombshell” interview and not because of what CAUSED the bombshell interview in the first place.
Yes, it is always the fault of the victim for causing trouble by speaking out about their experience, not the bully for their behaviour.
But at the end of the day, this is his family. We only get one of those. And, he went on public television and aired their dirty laundry to tens of millions of people, and for what?? Did we, the public, really need to know those details? Those were private matters. I can see why his family would all feel betrayed. However justified he might have felt to do what he did, I think it was a short-sited and immature move on his part that will have a lasting impact on his relationship with his family. You don’t do that and expect to have harmony.
No, we don’t only get one family. We also have families we choose and we create. One does not have to accept or interact with toxicity because of blood.
@Marie It’s fine for the RF to leak to the press for years, but inexcusable for Harry to refute the leaks? They were never going to stop. They didn’t even slow down during a year in which Harry and Meghan were barely in public. Since the interview, a lot of the lies the RF had been leaking and the press had been printing have stopped. Too many people seem to have forgotten the years leading up to the interview. Tabloids were saturating the news cycle every single day with Meghan Meghan Meghan Meghan Meghan. The Daily Express averaged something like 20 articles A DAY about Meghan and that’s just a single outlet. They were churning out almost 250k articles about her a year. If the press and the leaking had let up after Harry and Meghan left they might not have done the interview, but it didn’t, not for one second.
The interview may not have been a good option, but it was the best one they had to change the narrative, and outside of the UK it has. Their success no longer hinges on their popularity or unpopularity in the UK. They have to think about how they are perceived globally because that’s their brand and globally the interview has done nothing but help them. Even in the UK the younger generations and minorities side with Harry and Meghan, so while conservative Britain and MAGA Americans might hate them, most of the world doesn’t. Even in Canada most people side with them, not the Royal Family.
Harry and Meghan have hired one of the best PR firms there is, well known for handling clients in a PR crisis. Despite what Royalists may think, that interview gave them a ton of positive exposure. Millions who weren’t paying much attention and didn’t really care are now in their corner. Harry and Meghan also have another motive and that is taking on conspiracy and hate addled right-wing media, which most of the tabloids in the UK are. It was never going to be pretty.
Harry was man enough to say what he felt needed to be said, his brother is a sniviling coward who ‘leaks’ to the bm. I know which one I respect.
The ‘what for’ was to counter lies from the cowardly brother that have sat for years. They weren’t considered ‘private matters’ when kp was leaking the stories, were they?
There’s no evidence to suggest Harry “expects to have harmony.” He wants them to leave him, his wife, and his children alone.
Marie did you miss the years of leaks like a senior royal calling Meghan Harry’s degree wife, nasty nicknames like Me-gain, Harry the Hostage, details of the rift between the brothers over William’s ‘advice re Meghan, gossip over staff relations, William wanting to banish the Sussexes to somewhere in Africa. Leaking their travel locations incl when they went to Canada.
Even when they left royal duties and were quiet, the leaking continued with tales of why they left & hopes for Harry to return alone, smears about Meghan making Kate & everyone cry, wreathgate, birth certificate gate etc. A palace source even supplied information to the Fail for its defence in the case Meghan won. Hardly actions of people who wanted harmony.
I can’t blame the Sussexes for wanting to put their side out explaining why they stepped back seeing as the firm clearly wasn’t going to stop trashing their (mainly Meghan’s) reputations.
However, they hardly talked about anyone in the family, mainly talking about the institution. strongest comments of a named royal was aimed at Charles with Harry saying he felt let down by him but apparently still wanting to work out the relationship.
Marie, if my “family” was driving my pregnant wife to suicide and refusing her medical treatment, you can BET I would end things with them. I don’t care if I “only have one family.” That’s not quite true anyway because *Meghan and Archie are his family* and he needs to protect them. Harry is a much more forgiving person than I am because he is attending the funeral where he was have to see them all again.
He can do an interview if he wants, and remember it was partly to promote their work and charities — heaven knows his family has reporters and politicians enough in their pocket.
It stopped being a private family matter when Will got the press involved.
How come “you only have one family” is only ever trotted out to silence victims of abuse, and not to stop people from abusing in the first place? You only have one life, and living it in the service of protecting abusers is wasting it.
William’s camp released a statement w/a photo of Prince George w/Prince Phillip in his carriage. It was a sweet innocuous statement. I think simple statements, like Harry’s on the Archewell site & this one of a man & his great grandchild is far superior than that of PedoAndy running towards cameras to yammer on in an effort to rehabilitate his image.
I was embarrassed for him after that stupid statement. The term naked ambition best describes his face when he saw those cameras.
@cecilia I’m pretty sure Harry can be tested and get results within hours these days. I’m sure he can get priority testing.
There is a 12 minute turn around on the better test at my hospital.
Is there going to be a spectacle or isn’t there? Is this a 30-person maximum, family-only event, with no public component and a statement asking the general public to stay home OR is there going to be a public parade a la Diana’s funeral procession?
The DM article implies a huge historic, not-to-be-missed photo op. Can a local CB’er set us straight here pls?
If the entire thing is filmed via one streaming camera, like the Sussex wedding, there will be plenty of opportunity for RRs to freezeframe and replay video clips ad nauseum.
Not if Harry is wearing a mask, since he’ll be indoors and that’s protocol anyway. I sure hope her does wear one which will give
The media nothing
If Harry is going to have to stand/walk shoulder to shoulder with William, I hope uses that as an opportunity to slip a BetterUp app coupon into William’s pocket.
Maybe offer Wiliam an oatmilk latte? “Here, you look a little incandescent with rage. Maybe this will help.”
HA!
It gives me secondhand anxiety thinking about how hard this will be for Harry. These kinds of events are so difficult anytime, and are even more challenging if you don’t get along with your family.
Wills won’t go shoulder to shoulder with Harry. Can’t stab him in the back that way.
I hope there are fisticuffs at the wake or before the funeral 😂😂😂
I suspect that Harry will actually be standing behind William not shoulder to shoulder. After all he has to know his place.
of course they would do that.
Harry (not to mention all the others) managed to stay out of frame with the Trumps when they had their visit. I think he can finagle staying out of frame with William if he wants to — and I think he will to the best of his ability.
Please that won’t be a real fight, have you seen how fit Harry is? He would throw one fake punch other brother would shit his pants and faint. Lololol
They love a public display of mourning? Huh? Pretty sure they do this stuff because of protocol.
I know, right? Their entire lives have been a public display. Why would this be different?
I mean, all Harry has to say to those courtiers is “ nope, not walking with William. Next” . He isn’t bound by their bullying rules any more. Or, he could walk with William and play it cool. Which would of course make William
Incandescent.
Nothing will happen. Both will do as they’re told and to back to not speaking to one another.
The BM got it wrong about Harry at Nott Cott. The rags want a “reconciliation” so they can the exclusives not the US press. Sorry the band is not getting back together.
Shhh, don’t encourage her with the idea of a band. Now Kate will want to rewear her awful Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band tasselled coatdress from a few years ago.
I still stand by gluing Harry to Anne. They can unite in their grief of being the only decedents of Elizabeth and Philip, who actually absorbed and put into action what they were taught. Service, service, service. Harry and Anne ARE the gold standard.
Oh, nooo! Just read the BBC received over 100,000 complaints about over coverage of this mans’ death. People apparently didn’t get the memo that this was the royals first chance at global rehabilitation of their image. Can’t even rely on the peons anymore.
The poster Shawna above stated this what the Sussex family wants-Gayle King said the very same thing after the interview aired.