PRINCE George, 9, and Princess Charlotte, 7, will attend the Queen’s funeral and are to accompany their parents, the newly named Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, during their walk into Westminster Abbey.
The second and third in line to the throne will take part in today’s procession, along with King Charles and Prince Harry, under a ‘collective family decision’ by William and Kate. This will make the siblings the youngest participants ever to take a central role on an occasion like this. It will give them an opportunity to bid farewell to their beloved ‘Gan Gan’.
Instead of walking the entire length of the procession route, the siblings will accompany their mother and the Queen Consort, Camilla, in a car to Westminster Abbey. They will then join the procession with their parents and other members of the royal family in following their great-grandmother’s coffin into the place of worship.
The Prince and Princess of Wales ‘thought long and hard’ about whether to have their two eldest children join them, but decided that they could cope with the solemnity of the occasion after George and Charlotte attended their great grandfather’s memorial in March. Louis, 4, the couple’s youngest, will not be joining.
The children will also be in the congregation for the committal service at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor that afternoon. A decision is to be made about whether the children feel like participating in the procession there.
The procession will have King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla in the lead, followed by the rest of the royal family. Following the Queen’s passing, King Charles thanked the public for their support, saying that he and the queen consort are "deeply touched" as he prepares the country for a "last farewell" to his mother on the eve of her funeral. – The Vibes, September 19, 2022
