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King Charles III coronation: New details released by Buckingham Palace, including star-studded concert
Buckingham Palace on Saturday released new details about King Charles III’s weekend-long coronation celebration this May, which will include a star-studded televised concert at Windsor Palace.
The festivities will start with Charles and Queen Consort Camilla’s coronations at Westminster Abbey on the morning of May 6 (where Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral was held), which will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The palace called it a “solemn religious service, as well as an occasion for celebration and pageantry.”
“As previously announced, the Service will reflect the Monarch’s role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry,” the palace said in a release.
It is expected to be a more slimmed-down event compared to the late queen’s 1953 coronation.
The king and queen consort will arrive from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey in the “King’s Procession” and will proceed back to the palace afterward in the larger “Coronation Procession” that will include members of the royal family.
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King Charles III’s coronation will include the ceremony at Westminster Abbey, a concert at Windsor and community activities.
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The royal family then will appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to conclude the day’s events.
The palace gave no information on whether Prince Harry, who is promoting his book “Spare,” which is highly critical of the royal family, or Meghan Markle will attend the coronation or any of its surrounding events.
Harry declined to say if he would accept an invitation to the coronation in a recent interview, saying, “There’s a lot that can happen between now and then. But the door is always open. The ball is in their court.”
The palace has not said which royal family members will be in attendance. Prince Harry declined in a recent interview to say if he would attend his faher’s coronation.
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On Saturday, May 7, “global music icons and contemporary stars” will headline a BBC-produced Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle. The palace didn’t specify who would be performing at the show.
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The concert is open to the public and will include volunteers from the king and queen consort’s charities. Through a national ballot several thousand Britons will receive free tickets to the show.
The concert will also have an orchestra, dancers, a Coronation Choir made up of community choirs from across the country and “spoken word sequences delivered by stars of stage and screen.”
The coronation for King Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort will be held on May 6.
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During the show, iconic landmarks across the U.K. will be lit for “Lighting up the Nation.”
On Sunday, people across the country are invited to have a meal together for the Coronation Big Lunches, a nationwide act of celebration and friendship. “From a cup of tea with a neighbour to a street party, a Coronation Big Lunch brings the celebrations to your neighbourhood and is a great way to get to know your community a little better,” the palace said.
The Big Help Out, a volunteering initiative, will be held on Monday, May 8, and “will encourage people to try volunteering for themselves and join the work being undertaken to support their local areas.”
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Charles and Camilla “hope the Coronation Weekend will provide an opportunity to spend time and celebrate with friends, families and communities across the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth,” the release said. “Their Majesties are looking forward to marking the occasion with the public throughout 2023.”
King Charles III’s coronation: Buckingham Palace reveals details of three-day celebration
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Buckingham Palace on Saturday revealed details of King Charles III’s coronation, set to be less extravagant than his mother’s ceremony 70 years ago, in a reflection of the cost-of-living crisis many Britons are enduring.
Three days of celebrations will take place, with the coronation on Saturday May 6, a “Coronation Big Lunch” and “Coronation Concert” the following day, and an extra bank holiday on Monday. The public will be invited on the last day to join “The Big Help Out” by volunteering in their communities.
The coronation itself will be “a solemn religious service, as well as an occasion for celebration and pageantry,” conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the palace said.
It will, the palace reiterated, “reflect the Monarch’s role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry.”
That line from the palace has been interpreted by experts as a hint that Charles’ coronation will be different and more subdued from the one his late mother experienced seven decades ago, with a shorter ceremony and amendments to some of the feudal elements of the ritual. Queen Elizabeth’s coronation was the first live televised royal event and lasted three hours.
Charles and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, will arrive at Westminster Abbey in procession from Buckingham Palace, known as “The King’s Procession,” and return later in a larger ceremonial procession, known as “The Coronation Procession,” accompanied by other members of the royal family.
The King and Queen Consort, alongside members of the royal family, will then appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to conclude the day’s events.
At this point, the palace has not specified which members of the family will appear in the procession and on the balcony, following Prince Andrew’s continued exile from public life as a result of historical sexual abuse allegations and the publication of Prince Harry’s memoir which railed against his family.
“It would help Charles a lot in terms of his image if Harry and Meghan were there,” royal historian Kate Williams previously told CNN. “It’s particularly going to look bad for him if his son is not there because, of course, Harry still is very high in line to the throne, as are his children.”
On the following day, May 7, thousands of events are expected to take place across the country as part of the “Coronation Big Lunch,” while as-yet unnamed “global music icons and contemporary stars,” will come together for a “Coronation Concert” held on Windsor Castle’s East Lawn, the palace said.
The concert will be attended by a public audience composed of volunteers from the King and Queen Consort’s charity affiliations as well as several thousand members of the public selected through a national ballot held by the BBC.
They will watch a “world-class orchestra play interpretations of musical favorites fronted by some of the world’s biggest entertainers, alongside performers from the world of dance…and a selection of spoken word sequences delivered by stars of stage and screen,” the palace said, adding that a line-up would be released in due course.
A diverse group comprised of Britain’s Refugee choirs, NHS choirs, LGBTQ+ singing groups and deaf signing choirs, will form “The Coronation Choir” and also perform at the concert, alongside “The Virtual Choir,” made up of singers from across the Commonwealth.
Well-known locations across the country will also be lit up using projections, lasers, drone displays and illuminations as part of the concert.
The celebrations will conclude on the bank holiday Monday with “The Big Help Out” that will aim to “bring communities together and create a lasting volunteering legacy from the Coronation Weekend.”
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King Charles kicks Prince Andrew out of Buckingham Palace
King Charles has finally thrown his brother, alleged sex pest Prince Andrew, out of Buckingham Palace, an insider claims.
The 62-year-old disgraced prince, who resigned from the Royal Family nearly three years ago over his ties with sex trafficking duo Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, will no longer be allowed an office in the castle that serves as the royal headquarters, sources told The Sun.
Queen Elizabeth reportedly allowed her son Andrew to continue using the palace and to retain a small staff after he stepped down from public duty in 2020.
But under his brother’s rule, Andrew won’t even be allowed to use Buckingham Palace as a corresponding address.
“Any presence at the Palace is officially over,” a source told the outlet. “The King has made it clear. He isn’t a working royal. He’s on his own.”
The banishment is the latest in a string of punishments since Andrew attempted to deny knowing longtime accuser Virginia Giuffre, who alleges she was made to have sex with him at the behest of Epstein and Maxwell.
Though he has not admitted to the allegations, he paid Giuffre a $12 million settlement in February after she sued him for sexual abuse.
He was stripped of military and royal titles and was not allowed to wear his military uniform to his mother’s funeral. Shortly after her death, King Charles told his brother that he would never return to royal life. Last month, the king reportedly stripped Andrew’s 24-hour security service.
On Wednesday, King Charles named Queen Consort Camilla the Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, a position once held and treasured by Andrew.
Despite the palace exile, Andrew is expected to spend Christmas dinner with King Charles and the rest of the royal family. The discouraged prince is also likely to keep his government-funded 31-bed Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate, for now.
Netflix vs. Buckingham Palace: Spat Intensifies Over ‘Harry & Meghan’
The spat between Buckingham Palace and the producers behind Netflix’s “Harry & Meghan” docuseries has intensified after it emerged that palace officials not only had an opportunity to comment on the Sussexes’ claims within the show, but tried to obtain footage in advance.
The war of words erupted last Thursday, shortly after “Harry & Meghan” dropped on Netflix at 8 a.m. U.K. time. The series opens with a set of title cards reading: “This is a first hand account of Harry and Meghan’s story, told with never before seen personal archive. All interviews were completed by August 2022. Members of the Royal Family declined to comment on the content within this series.”
By late morning, it appeared Buckingham Palace sources had briefed royal reporters that the royals had not been approached for comment. The Daily Mail’s royal editor Rebecca English tweeted at 12 p.m.: “Contrary to claims by the makers of the Netflix documentary, I understand neither Buckingham or Kensington Palace or any members of the Royal Family were approached for comment on the content of the series. I’m not expecting any comment from the royal households as it stands.”
Roya Nikkhah, royal editor for The Sunday Times, tweeted at 12:02 p.m.: “NEW Senior royal sources say this claim in #HarryandMeghanonNetflix that members of the royal family declined to comment, is wrong. Sources say they’re not aware of any approach to Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace or any member of the family on its content or for comment[.]”
A Netflix source immediately refuted the Palace’s claim, however, saying that both Harry’s dad, King Charles, and brother, Prince William, were approached for comment via their communications secretaries and given a chance to reply.
In the series, Harry claims his older brother “screamed and shouted” at him after he told them he and wife Meghan planned to “step back” from the Royal Family, and that William had effectively “bullied” him out of the family. He also alleged that his father had said “things that weren’t true” and that both men – or at least their offices – had leaked stories to the press about Harry and Meghan.
By the late afternoon, the Buckingham Palace sources had changed their tune, according to U.K. news reports, and confirmed that they had received a request for comment via a “third party production company,” which they had attempted to verify with both Netflix and the Sussexes’ production company Archewell. Having received no reply from either party they did not respond further to the request.
At 4.26 p.m. Nikkhah tweeted: “A @KensingtonRoyal source has clarified that an email was received ‘purporting’ to be from a third-party production company on the #HarryandMeghan doc from an unknown company’s email address. KP [Kensington Palace] contacted @netflix and Archwell to try and verify it but received no response[.]”
“I understand that a similar approach from an unverified email was also made to Buckingham Palace, and BP [Buckingham Palace] also unsuccessfully attempted verification,” she wrote in a follow-up tweet. “Sources say neither emails included substantial information on the series in for adequate right to reply[.]”
As Variety confirmed earlier today, that third party was Story Syndicate, the production company co-founded by “Harry & Meghan” director Liz Garbus. Story Syndicate co-produced the series alongside Archewell Productions.
Now it has emerged that not only did William’s communications secretary Lee Thompson acknowledge he had received Story Syndicate’s email but, in a reply dated Nov. 30, he asked the company to share footage from the series with him in advance of it dropping on Netflix, a source for Story Syndicate confirmed to Variety. Once Story Syndicate told him they could not share any footage in advance – but asked him again to respond to the claims made within the series, which they re-iterated in the email – Thompson did not respond further.
The Story Syndicate source confirmed to Variety that a request for comment was also sent directly to Tobyn Andreae, director of communications for the Royal household and spokesperson for King Charles. That email was sent to Andrae’s inbox as opposed to a generic Buckingham Palace email address and did not bounce back.
On the same day, Story Syndicate also emailed Jason Knauf (Prince William and Harry’s former joint communications secretary), setting out claims made about him in “Harry & Meghan.” A source close to the docuseries pointed out to Variety that, unlike the royal communications team, Knauf did not question the veracity of the production company’s email or involvement and responded to Story Syndicate’s query with a comment which was then included in the series.
Buzzfeed News, which first broke the news about Thompson’s request, reported that an Archewell employee received an email from the royal communications team regarding Story Syndicate’s query, but it was sent after the deadline had passed for a response to be included in the docuseries. Buzzfeed News added that Netflix had not seen any correspondence from the royals regarding the docuseries but that such a request may have been sent to “an obscure account.”
A source independently confirmed Archewell’s correspondence with the palace to Variety.
Buzzfeed News also claimed that Thompson and Andreae were the “royal sources” who briefed Nikkhah and English, sending them information via a WhatsApp group.
Variety has reached out to all parties for comment.
Buckingham Palace official quits after asking Black charity CEO where she was ‘really from’
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An honorary member of Buckingham Palace has resigned and apologized after a Black charity founder said she was questioned about whether she was really British at a royal reception on Tuesday.
The guest, Ngozi Fulani, is the CEO of Sistah Space, an organization that provides specialist services to women of African and Caribbean heritage affected by abuse.
Fulani was attending a royal function on domestic abuse organized by the Queen Consort on Tuesday evening when she said a member of staff began a line of questioning that the palace called “unacceptable and deeply regrettable.”
Fulani said that the person persistently asked about her heritage and would not accept that she was a British national.
Sistah Space shared a rough transcript of the conversation on Twitter on Wednesday. Fulani said that, after identifying herself as British-born, the person asked her “where do you really come from;” “where do your people come from;” and “when did you first come here?”
When Fulani answered she was from the London neighborhood of Hackney, the household member insisted: “No, what part of Africa are YOU from?” as quoted on the Sistah Space twitter account.
Buckingham Palace, which has not named the household member involved in the incident, said earlier today that the individual concerned had apologized and “stepped aside from her honorary role with immediate effect.”
Sistah Space said that it “serves no purpose to name & shame” the person in question on its Twitter account on Wednesday, adding “it is the system that needs to be revised.”
“Yes the person was offensive, but it serves no purpose to name & shame her, it would make us just as bad. We prefer that this be handled kindly,” Sistah Space said.
British media have identified the Buckingham Palace official as Lady Susan Hussey, who served as the late Queen Elizabeth II’s lady in waiting for more than 60 years and is a godmother to the Prince of Wales.
CNN has reached out to Ngozi Fulani and Buckingham Palace for further comment from the household member in question.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson acknowledged the incident and said the palace was taking the situation “extremely seriously.”
“Unacceptable and deeply regrettable comments have been made. We have reached out to Ngozi Fulani on this matter, and are inviting her to discuss all elements of her experience in person if she wishes,” the spokesperson said.
“In the meantime, the individual concerned would like to express her profound apologies for the hurt caused and has stepped aside from her honorary role with immediate effect.”
News of the encounter came to light as the Prince and Princess of Wales traveled to the US ahead of the second iteration of the Earthshot Prize Awards later this week.
A spokesman for William said: “Racism has no place in our society, these comments were unacceptable. It’s right that the individual concerned has stepped down.”
The incident is likely to revive concerns that the palace is elitist and out of touch when it comes to issues of race and identity.
The palace has, in recent years, faced allegations of racist behavior, including in its hiring practices decades ago and the treatment of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. A former counterterrorism police chief said Tuesday that Meghan and Harry had faced “disgusting and very real” threats from right-wing extremists.
Meghan claimed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last year that an unnamed member of the family made remarks about the skin color of their unborn baby while she was pregnant with Archie.
Prince William later said the royal family was “very much not a racist family.”
Camilla scraps position of lady-in-waiting at Buckingham Palace
The position of lady-in-waiting has been scrapped at Buckingham Palace, bringing to an end a centuries-old tradition.
Combining the roles of companion, adviser and secretary, ladies-in-waiting played a key part in Royal life, accompanying the late Queen and her sister Princess Margaret on official duties and foreign tours.
But in a sign of the new Queen Consort Camilla’s unfussy approach, they will be replaced by six aides styled ‘Queen’s Companions’.
Last night the Palace named them as Sarah Troughton, Jane von Westenholz, Fiona the Marchioness of Lansdowne, an interior designer, Lady Katharine Brooke and Baroness Carlyn Chisholm, a Conservative peer. The sixth is Camilla’s close friend Lady Sarah Keswick, whose husband, Sir Chips Keswick, retired as chairman of Arsenal football club in 2020. All have been loyal to Camilla.
A Palace source said they will receive a nominal fee to cover their expenses in much the same way as ladies-in-waiting.
Meanwhile. a senior royal source told The Sunday Times: ‘The Queen Consort did not want or need ladies-in-waiting and the Queen’s companions will have a different role. They are there to provide Her Majesty with support and company. At the end of a very busy day, it is nice to have a longstanding friend beside you.’
The position of lady-in-waiting has been scrapped at Buckingham Palace, bringing to an end a centuries-old tradition – in a sign of the new Queen Consort Camilla’s unfussy approach
Last night the Palace named Sarah Troughton (pictured) as one of the ‘Queen’s Companions’
Lady Sarah Keswick (pictured) was also named. Her husband, Sir Chips Keswick, retired as chairman of Arsenal football club in 2020
Baroness Carlyn Chisholm, a Conservative peer, will be another of the ‘Queen’s Companion’
Fiona the Marchioness of Lansdowne (right), an interior designer, is another appointed to the role
All the women are among the inner circle of the King and Queen and believed to be some of the monarchs’ oldest and most loyal friends.
Lady Lansdowne, 68, is an interior designer with an eye for fashion. She is known professionally as ‘Fiona Shelburne’. Her husband Charles, the Marquess of Lansdowne, is one of the King’s closest friends.
Lady Lansdowne is the chatelaine of Bowood House in Wiltshire – close to Camilla’s private country estate. Known as ‘Lofty’ to her friends, Jane von Westenholz is married to former Olympic alpine skier Baron von Westenholz.
While Lady Brooke – daughter of Lady Susan Hussey, who is a former lady-in-waiting of the late Queen – is a leading figure in horse racing.
Sarah Troughton, 69, is the Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire – the first woman to hold the post since its creation almost 500 years ago. She is also the late Queen’s cousin and appeared in the ITV documentary Camillia’s Country Life to mark the Queen Consort’s 75th birthday earlier this year.
And Lady Sarah is the Queen Consort’s oldest friend and is married to Sir Chips Keswick, the former chairman of Hambros bank and ex-director of Arsenal Football Club. Having a wicked sense of humour, she is described as ‘very funny’ and a ‘great draw at dinner time’ by friends close to her.
Former nurse Baroness Chisholm is a life peer, having previously represented the Conservatives in the House of Lords. A fan of horse racing, she has previously attended Royal Ascot with the Charles and Camilia and, before the royal couple quit, used to go fox hunting with them too.
Lady Katherine Brooke, right, pictured with Sir Francis. She is among the closest and most loyal friends of the King and Queen Consort
Jane von Westenholz is the Queen Consort’s sixth companion
Combining the roles of companion, adviser and secretary, ladies-in-waiting played a key part in Royal life, accompanying the late Queen and her sister Princess Margaret on official duties and foreign tours.
The shift in royal tradition has also seen the Queen Consort hire her first dedicated equerry, a male adviser playing the same role. He was last night named as Major Ollie Plunkett, of The Rifles, of which the Queen Consort is Colonel-in-Chief.
He will work alongside her private secretary. Some of the Queen’s Companions will appear publicly with her for the first time on Tuesday, at a Palace reception to highlight violence against women and girls.
Ladies-in-waiting answered correspondence, helped host events and accompanied female Royals on their travels.
The new role, a Palace source said, was to take into account the changing needs of the 75-year-old Queen Consort who won’t be required ‘to be in attendance as regularly’.
A Palace spokesman said: ‘The role of the Queen’s Companion will be to support the Queen Consort in some of her key official and state duties.’
The late Queen’s ladies-in-waiting have been kept on but will now be known as ladies of the household. They are Lady Susan Hussey, Dame Mary Morrison and Dame Annabel Whitehead.
A Palace spokesman added that the former ladies-in-waiting would ‘continue to assist His Majesty the King in hosting formal occasions at Buckingham Palace’.
Buckingham Palace announces details of Queen’s funeral service
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A two-minute nationwide silence will be held shortly before the state funeral service for Queen Elizabeth II concludes on Monday, palace officials have revealed.
The meticulously planned arrangements are set to be a fitting farewell to Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, and will see King Charles III and members of the royal family walk behind the coffin once more as it is moved from the heart of the British parliamentary estate to Westminster Abbey for the hour-long service.
Speaking on behalf of the many agencies and departments involved in the funeral, the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, said orchestrating the event was “both humbling and daunting.”
He added that it aimed to “unite people across the globe and resonate with people of all faiths, whilst fulfilling Her Majesty and her family’s wishes to pay a fitting tribute to an extraordinary reign.”
The Queen died a week ago age 96 at her country home of Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
Heads of state, European royals and dignitaries from around the world will descend on the English capital to join the royal family in honoring the Queen’s life and unwavering service to the nation and Commonwealth next week.
While no official guest list has yet been published, invitations have been sent. US President Joe Biden was among the first to confirm his attendance of the event in London, at which 2,000 people are expected.
The palace outlined what to expect during Monday’s ceremonial events for the late monarch in a briefing Thursday.
On the day of the funeral at around 10:35 a.m. (5:35 a.m. ET), the coffin will be lifted from the catafalque where it has been resting by a bearer party founded by the Queen’s Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, and carried in procession from Westminster Hall to the State Gun Carriage of the Royal Navy, a senior palace official said.
The gun carriage has also been used for the funerals of previous monarchs, including those of King Edward VII, King George V and King George VI. It was also used for the funerals of the Queen’s first prime minister, Winston Churchill, and her cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten.
In keeping with previous tradition, the gun carriage will set off at 10:44 a.m. and be drawn by 142 Royal Naval Ratings, who are service personnel, according to the senior palace official.
It will then process on the short journey from New Palace Yard to Westminster Abbey, which will be lined by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The procession will be led by a massed Pipes & Drums of Scottish and Irish Regiments, the Brigade of Gurkhas, and the Royal Air Force with musicians numbering 200 in total.
The King, royal family members, and members of both households of the monarch and Prince of Wales will follow directly behind the coffin.
For the journey, the coffin will be flanked by the bearer party, pallbearers found from service equerries to the Queen, in addition to detachments of The King’s Body Guards of The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, The Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Company of Archers.
The service will be conducted by the Rev. David Hoyle, the Dean of Westminster, at Westminster Abbey, starting at 11 a.m. (6 a.m. ET).
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Patricia Scotland, the Commonwealth Secretary General, will read lessons. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, will deliver a sermon.
Towards the end of the service, at around 11:55 a.m., the Last Post will sound before the two-minute silence is observed.
The state funeral will be brought to a conclusion by the Queen’s Piper, who at noon (7 a.m. ET) will play a Reveille, the National Anthem and a Lament.
Following the state funeral, the coffin will be conveyed from the hall to Wellington Arch – again with King Charles III leading some members of the royal family on foot behind, while Camilla, the Queen Consort and others follow by car – before making its final journey out of London to Windsor.
Its destination: St. George’s Chapel, within the grounds of Windsor Castle, where a committal service will take place at about 4 p.m. (11 a.m. ET), conducted by the Dean of Windsor. Prince Philip’s funeral service was also held there in 2021.
The Crown Jeweller will be present and, prior to the final hymn, will remove the Imperial State Crown, the Orb and the Sceptre, which will later be returned to Tower of London.
At the service’s conclusion, the Queen’s coffin will be lowered into the Royal Vault below the chapel.
A private burial service will be held for the family later, and the Queen will be laid to rest with her late husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel. Located elsewhere in St. George’s, it is where the Queen’s father and mother were also interred, and where her sister Margaret’s ashes remain.
Mourners have been queuing through the night for their chance to file past the Queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall and pay their respects. The queue of visitors has been steadily growing since the doors opened to the public.
By Thursday lunchtime, the line extended about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) along the River Thames past Tower Bridge, according to an official tracker.
Buckingham Palace also said that Queen Elizabeth II’s children would mount a vigil around her coffin on Friday evening, similar to their guard in St. Giles’ Cathedral in Scotland earlier this week.
King Charles III will be joined by Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward around the coffin.
The palace also revealed the King will host a reception for visiting heads of state at Buckingham Palace on Sunday, ahead of the state funeral.
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