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Prince Harry was certain to help Meghan Markle as a lot as she supported him throughout Queen Elizabeth‘s funeral.
Talking with PEOPLE after the poignant companies, funeral visitor and lawyer Pranav Bhanot shared a number of the moments he noticed between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex through the Westminster Abbey state funeral.
“You noticed the reassurance that Harry was giving to Meghan at occasions after they had been strolling collectively and needed to go of their totally different instructions,” Bhanot informed PEOPLE.
“I observed simply how supportive Harry was to Meghan,” he continued. “After they went their separate instructions after the ceremony, he gave her a agency squeeze of the hand. I felt he wished to make sure she felt snug.”
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In a while within the day, the couple sat subsequent to Prince William, Kate Middleton and their two older youngsters, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, on the committal ceremony for the late monarch.
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The service passed off at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Citadel — the place the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wed in Could 2018 — on Monday. Meghan, 41, Harry, 38, Kate, 40, William, 40, George, 9, and Charlotte, 7, sat within the entrance row of pews on one facet of the Queen’s coffin. After strolling into the chapel in a procession behind the Queen’s coffin, Kate and Prince William stood to the facet to let Meghan and Prince Harry into the pew first.
As the subsequent two folks within the line of succession to the throne, Prince William and Prince George had distinguished spots subsequent to one another close to the altar.
On the other facet within the entrance row sat Prince Edward together with his spouse, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, together with their youngsters, Woman Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had been already in Europe for a collection of charity occasions with out their children — son Archie Harrison and daughter Lilibet “Lili” Diana — when the late monarch died “peacefully” at her beloved Scottish residence, Balmoral Citadel, at age 96 on Sept. 8.
The couple stayed within the U.Okay. with the intention to attend the funeral on Monday in addition to various occasions main as much as the service.
The Queen shall be surrounded by household as soon as she’s buried at St. George’s Chapel, on which building started in 1475 by King Edward IV and was accomplished greater than 50 years later by King Henry VIII.
Her mother and father, King George VI, who died in 1952, and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mom, who died in 2002, in addition to her sister, Princess Margaret, who additionally died in 2002, are all interred within the King George VI Memorial Chapel.