Prince Philip funeral: final preparations taking place for service at Windsor – latest updates

The service has been reduced from 800 to just 30 people due to coronavirus restrictions, so has been limited to family.

The procession will be led by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh’s children. Charles, the Prince of Wales, and Anne, the Princess Royal, will lead Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, Edward, Earl of Wessex and other family members walking behind the duke’s coffin.

The Queen will join the funeral procession, travelling by car.

Princes William and Harry, who have reportedly had a difficult relationship in recent years over Harry’s decision to pull away from the royal family, will not walk shoulder to shoulder but with their cousin Peter Phillips between them.

Other attendees include Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, Sophie, Countess of Wessex and her children Viscount Severn and Lady Louise. Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, Anne’s husband, will also be in attendance.

Zara and Mike Tindall, Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, have also been invited.

Also attending will be the two children of the Queen’s sister Princess Margaret, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, and Lady Sarah’s husband Daniel Chatto, alongside the Duke of Edinburgh’s close friend Countess Mountbatten of Burma. Other attendees include the Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra, first cousins of the Queen.

Three of Philip’s German relatives will also be at the funeral; Prince Bernhard of Baden, who is the grandson of the duke’s second sister Theodora; Prince Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse, the head of the house of Hesse into which the duke’s younger sister Cecile and Sophie married; and Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the grandson of the duke’s elder sister Princess Margarita.

source: theguardian.com