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There was “no snub” aimed toward Prince Harry at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral and he was seated within the second row due to his age, a supply at Buckingham Palace instructed The Every day Beast Monday night.
The supply sought to quell hypothesis that Harry and spouse Meghan Markle had been seated within the second row as a snub following their estrangement from the household, telling The Every day Beast: “The order was roughly age order however attempting to not break up households up.” (Harry and Meghan had been seated on the entrance row on the second public funeral service of the day at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.)
The palace steered that, other than Prince William (40) who's now first in line to the throne, different grandchildren of the monarch had been seated in age order, with Peter (44) and Zara (41) being put within the entrance row forward of second-row occupants Harry (38), Beatrice (34), and Eugenie (32).
In accordance with the palace, this explains why Harry’s cousins, Princess Anne’s youngsters Zara and Peter, had been seated within the entrance row regardless of by no means having been working royals, fairly than hypothesis that Harry being relegated to a much less outstanding place in response to his and his spouse’s assaults on the monarchy.
The couple have accused an unnamed particular person within the household of racism and Meghan gave an interview shortly earlier than the queen’s loss of life during which she mentioned they threatened the “hierarchy” of the establishment “simply by present,” and appeared to threaten to make extra revelations. The palace are additionally mentioned to be extraordinarily anxious about Harry’s forthcoming memoir.
Harry has apparently suffered a number of slights for the reason that queen’s loss of life.
He didn't journey to Scotland along with his brother and uncles when his grandmother was first introduced to have been taken sick, was excluded from a dinner with Charles and William on the evening of her loss of life, and was banned from sporting navy uniform to at this time’s funeral.
It was additionally reported that he was solely instructed of the queen’s loss of life 5 minutes earlier than it was publicly introduced.