Harry and Meghan were placed second row at the Westminster funeral ceremony. What revive speculation on the tensions between the couple and the royal family.
Harry and Meghan were present on Monday for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. But a detail during the first ceremony organized in Westminster in the morning came to rekindle the rumors about the tensions between the couple and the royal family. The parents of Archie and Lilibet have indeed been relegated to second place in the abbey, behind the children of Princess Anne, Zara and Peter, who have never had an active role within the family. But a source interviewed by the 'Daily Beast' cut the controversy short, saying the Queen's eight grandchildren were placed by age, apart from William, first in line of succession, and his family formed by Kate Middleton and their children George and Charlotte, seated in the front row.
It is for this reason that Peter and Zara, aged 44 and 41, found themselves in the front row, while Harry, 38, Beatrice, 34, Eugenie, 32, Lady Louse, 18, and James , 14, were seated behind. By contrast, Harry and Meghan did sit front row this time at the second public funeral service of the day at St George's Chapel, Windsor.
If this detail may seem trivial, it adds to a list of other decisions taken by the royal family against Harry and Meghan, since the death of the queen. The first goes back to the day when his death was announced. The prince would have learned of the disappearance of his grandmother only five minutes before the public announcement, while the rest of the royal family was already there in Scotland. It was also revealed that while moving to Balmoral, Harry traveled alone, without his wife, at the request of his father Charles. He would also have been excluded from a family meal on the evening of the death of the sovereign but also invited then disinvited from an official reception with the heads of state.
Finally, the question of his uniform has been discussed at length for ten days. He was not allowed to wear his military uniform for the funeral. A decision imposed by protocol since he chose to leave his royal duties to go and live in the United States. However, he was able to put on his uniform during the vigil of the Queen's grandchildren on Saturday at Westminster Hall, by decision of King Charles III. However, a detail once again shed light on the difficult relationship between the prince and his family: on Harry's shoulder pads, two letters, "E.R.", for "Elizabeth Regina" (Queen in Latin) were missing, the initials of His Majesty.
