Agencies | London The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com Britain's longest-serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest with her husband Philip and parents in an intimate ceremony in London's Windsor on Monday. The evening interment service was not open to the med
Agencies | London
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Britain’s longest-serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest with her husband Philip and parents in an intimate ceremony in London’s Windsor on Monday. The evening interment service was not open to the media, and King Charles III, Queen Consort Camilla, Prince William and Kate, Prince Harry and Meghan, and other royals were able to bid a final farewell to the late monarch in private after being in the public spotlight for 10 days of national mourning.
Queen Elizabeth’s closest relatives were ashen-faced throughout solemn funeral rituals in London and Windsor, silently playing their parts in meticulously choreographed processions that nevertheless betrayed the high emotions of the day. The presence of William and Harry, walking side-by-side behind their grandmother’s coffin, was reminiscent of the day 25 years ago when, as boys, they took part in a similar procession to the funeral of their mother Diana, Princess of Wales.
Several world leaders gathered in London to bid farewell to the Queen. Bahrain monarch King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahrain Crown Prince and Prime Minister His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Indian President Droupadi Murmu, US President Joe Biden, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif were among the attendees.
