King Charles III and his three siblings held a silent vigil right here Friday across the closed coffin of their mom, Queen Elizabeth II, on the mortuary chapel arrange on the Palace of Westminster, house of the British Parliament.
In a solemn act, Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, all wearing navy uniform, stood guard for practically quarter-hour on all 4 sides of the coffin as lots of of residents continued to march previous on each side.
Due to the significance of the event, Prince Andrew was given the inexperienced gentle to put on navy finery though he’s now not a senior working royal. In related trend, Prince Harry additionally will have the ability to put on a navy uniform on the British king’s request in a vigil on Saturday.
Princess Anne, in the meantime, turned the primary girl to seem within the so-called “Vigil of the Princes,” a practice that started with the 1936 dying of King George V.
In 2002, following the dying of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mom, Charles, Andrew and Edward had been accompanied on the vigil of their grandmother by a cousin, David Linley.
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