Harry and William separated during the funeral procession… At the request of the Duke of Cambridge!
In Prince Philip's funeral procession, Harry and William were separated by their cousin. A decision that was not taken by the Firm, but by the Duke of Cambridge himself.
One imagined Harry and William united in pain, as they were behind the coffin of their mother Diana, in Westminster Abbey in 1997. But the Duke of Cambridge preferred to go through the death of their grandfather alone, without his brother by his side. In the procession, the two men therefore followed Prince Philip's coffin away from each other, separated by their cousin Peter Philips. But this location was not decided by the Firm, anxious not to aggravate the situation, as some like to imagine. If we are to believe the information from the Daily Mail, revealed this Sunday, April 18, Prince William himself is at the origin of this decision.
In fact, Kate Middleton's husband, who wants to play reconciler between the two brothers, is said to have explicitly asked to be separated from Prince Harry. He would even have directly consulted their cousin, and would have ordered him to position himself between them. “He just does what he said and continues to do it,” said one of his relatives, without disclosing more. A few days earlier, however, royal biographer Hugo Vickers reported a completely different version in the columns of the Daily Mail. The expert saw in this choice of location a simple strategy on the part of the queen. Thus, Elizabeth II would have deliberately chosen Peter Philips to help her two cousins to reconcile, since she would see in him a "mediator". “He was amazingly good with the boys when Diana passed away,” he said. So I think it will be very good for them. ”
“What an incredibly moving ceremony”
In any case, the reunion between Harry and William, as frosty as it is, still moved some. Their uncle Charles Spencer, brother of the late Princess of Hearts, even let it know on Twitter, after seeing images of the two brothers leaving St. George's Chapel together after the funeral ceremony. “Good God, what an incredibly moving ceremony,” he wrote. Since the Duke of Sussex moved across the Atlantic in March 2020 to the United States, Harry and William had not seen each other again.
