British princes William and Harry walked together yesterday Monday behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, just as they did 25 years ago with his mother, Princess Diana, but without showing signs of reconciliation.
With a memoir from Harry due out next year, and backstage discussions about military uniforms and titles for their sons, they and their wives, Catherine and Meghan, seemed as far apart as ever.
The brothers did their duty, walking elbow to elbow behind his father, King Carlos III, and other senior members of the royal family, while the coffin of his grandmother was taken to Westminster Abbey for his funeral. Guillermo, heir to the throne of his father Carlos III, wore a military uniform.
Enrique, who has been prohibited from doing so since he abandoned his life as a member of royalty, wore a suit in which he wore his medals. As the coffin entered the abbey, Henry kept his eyes lowered, while other members of the family in military uniform saluted.
Last week, Guillermo confessed to the public that walk behind your grandmother’s coffin It had brought back painful memories of his mother’s funeral procession in 1997, when he was 15 and his brother was just 12.
But if that painful shared experience was on their minds, there was no outward acknowledgment of it. At the entrance to the abbey, the brothers, who were once so close they could finish each other’s sentences, were accompanied by their wives and by William and Catherine’s two eldest sons, Prince George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, aged seven.
Catherine, newly appointed Princess of Wales, like William’s mother Diana, wore a black ensemble with a wide-brimmed hat and her hair tied up in a bun.