Meghan Markle attended Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral with Prince HarryMonday, September 19.
After Harry had taken part in the procession, the 41-year-old Duchess joined her husband, Harry, 38, at Westminster Abbey. Inside the church, the Suits alum and Invictus Games founder walked next to each other behind the queen’s coffin with other members of the royal family.
The couple, who tied the knot in 2018, took their seats in second row. King Charles III Queen Consort Camilla, who sat in the front row with the queen’s other children — Princess Anne, Prince Andrew Prince Edward — as well as Prince William, Princess KatePrince George and Princess Charlotte
After moving to the U.S. in 2020 Harry and Meghan visited the U.K. to attend an event that took place when the queen of Scotland died on September 8. She was 96. After the palace had announced the death of the monarch, the duke traveled to Balmoral Castle to visit his grandmother.
In the days following, Harry and Meghan joined the Prince and Princess of Wales, both 40, to greet mourners who lined the streets of Windsor, England, on September 10. “In the end, [William]Elect to [invite them] because it was agreed amongst all of them that this very much the appropriate thing to do,” a source told Us WeeklyThis was the first time that the brothers and their wives were seen together in public for many years.
The Duchess and Duke of Sussex attended a Westminster Hall ceremony on Wednesday, September 14. While they arrived separately — Harry walked in a procession with the monarch’s casket alongside William, Anne, 72, Andrew, 62, and Edward, 58 — Meghan rode in a car with Sophie, Countess Of Wessex. Charles, 73, and Camilla, 75, led the group out of the chapel after the service, with Harry and Meghan walking out hand in hand.
On Saturday, September 17, Harry and Meghan were present for the queen’s final vigil at Westminster Hall, with the prince being granted last-minute permission to wear his military uniform for the occasion amid backlash that Andrew was the only nonworking member of the royal family given an exception. (Harry lost his military titles after he and Meghan made public their plans to retire from the queen’s senior ranks in 2020.
Charles previously extended an “olive branch” to the pair when he mentioned them in his first address as the new king, per royal expert Gareth Russell.
“I think the king has made it very clear that he wants to heal the rift. Family dynamics, of course, are always complicated, but I think we can all see that there’s a great deal of pain,” Russell told Use after Charles sent his “love” to the Sussexes as they “continue to build their life overseas” on September 9.
Harry and Meghan share a son Archie, three, and a daughter Lilibet (15 months). They have been critical of their family experiences, but they also praise the queen over time.
“This is such an intensely difficult time for the princes,” an insider told UseHarry and William earlier in the month. “They both adored their grandma and it will take some time to process the reality of her passing. There’s still this horrendous sense of loss and emptiness thinking that she’ll no longer be around.”
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