Harry, Meghan Returned to Wedding ceremony Venue for Queen’s Committal Service

Resting place. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle returned to their wedding venue – St George’s Chapel at Windsor Fortress — to provide their remaining farewell to Queen Elizabeth II.

The Sussexes traveled to the locale on Monday, September 19, after her state funeral procession at Westminster Abbey. The late monarch was honored on the 750-year-old cathedral by members of the royal household, together with King Charles III and his siblings — Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward — and the queen’s grandchildren: Prince William, Harry, 38 and Peter Phillips. In the course of the service, Harry sat in between Meghan and niece Princess Charlotte in the identical row because the Prince and Princess of Wales.

After the service, the royal family participated in a procession from the church to Wellington Arch, the place the coffin was loaded right into a hearse and brought to Windsor Fortress. Afterward Monday, the queen will formally be buried on the grounds on the King George VI Memorial Chapel alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died at age 99 in April 2021. The Duke of Edinburgh was beforehand interred within the Royal Vault at Windsor’s St George’s Chapel, however his physique was moved to its remaining resting place forward of the queen’s funeral in order that he might be buried beside his spouse of 73 years.

The long-reigning sovereign — who served 70 years on the British throne — died on September 8 at her Balmoral Fortress in Scotland at age 96.

5 years earlier than her passing, the queen was in attendance at her 38-year-old grandson’s May 2018 wedding to the California native, 41, together with Harry’s finest man and brother, William, 40, Princess Kate, King Charles III, 73, Queen Consort Camilla, and the late Prince Phillip.

William and Kate’s youngsters, Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte, 7, served as a pageboy and a bridesmaid, respectively, whereas their new child child brother, Prince Louis, 4, didn’t attend the nuptials.

Whereas Harry and Meghan remained on good phrases with the late queen, their determination to step down as senior royals for Her Majesty in March 2020 and relocate to america brought about a ripple of tension throughout the family.

“Harry, Meghan and Archie will all the time be much-loved family members. I acknowledge the challenges they’ve skilled because of intense scrutiny over the last two years and help their want for a extra unbiased life,” the queen mentioned in January 2020. “I wish to thank them for all their devoted work throughout this nation, the Commonwealth and past, and am significantly pleased with how Meghan has so shortly turn out to be one of many household. It’s my complete household’s hope that right now’s settlement permits them to start out constructing a cheerful and peaceable new life.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex went on to take part in a bombshell interview with CBS in March 2021 that exposed some troublesome details about The Agency. The previous Fits actress, nonetheless, solely had type issues to say about her grandmother-in-law.

“It’s arduous for individuals to differentiate the 2 as a result of it’s a household enterprise, proper? So, there’s the family, after which there’s the individuals which can be operating the establishment,” she mentioned through the March 2021 interview. “The queen, for instance, has all the time been fantastic to me.”

The Bench writer and Invictus Video games founder and their children, Archie, 3, and 15-month-old Lilibet, had been additionally capable of spend time with the queen through the summer time earlier than she died in September. The proud mother and father introduced the little ones to London for Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee and the queen celebrated Lilibet’s first birthday with the Sussexes.

The pair, who traveled abroad in early September for varied engagements, stayed within the U.Ok. upon listening to the information of the sovereign’s declining well being. Harry traveled to Balmoral Fortress to be together with his grandmother whereas Meghan remained in London.

After information broke that the queen had died after greater than 70 years on the throne, Harry and Meghan’s Archewell basis’s web site quickly paused entry, solely displaying a tribute to the monarch: “In Loving Reminiscence of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 1926 to 2022.”

Out of respect for the late ruler, Meghan additionally put her upcoming Variety cover on hold. The “Archetypes” podcaster, who was not too long ago named one of many journal’s Energy of Ladies nominees, will proceed to mourn the lack of the queen with the remainder of the royal household and her cowl can be postponed till additional discover, the outlet confirmed on Wednesday, September 14.