Buckingham Palace on Thursday released the names of the 30 people who will be attending Prince Philip’s funeral on Saturday. Attendance is limited to 30 due to Great Britain COVID-19 restrictions – and even Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be in attendance.
The funeral is limited to queen elizabeth and Philips four children, eight grandchildren, their husbands, the children of the late Princess Margaret and several members of Philip’s Greek and German family.
The full list of attendees is as follows:
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- Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall
- Princess Anne and her husband, Vice Admiral Tim Laurence
- Prince Andrew
- Princess Edward, his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and their children, Forfar, Viscount Severn and Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor
- prince william and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Prince Harry
- Peter Phillips
- Zara and Mike Tindall
- Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
- Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank
- Lady Sarah and her husband, Daniel Chatto
- Earl Snowdon
- Duke of Gloucester
- Duke of Kent
- Princess Alexandra
- Bernhard, Hereditary Prince of Baden
- Prince Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse
- Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Philip, WHO died on April 9 at the age of 99, was born Prince Philip of Greece, the fifth and only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice. His family fled from revolutionaries in Greece a year after his birth, and it was reported that he was smuggled out of the country in a fruit crate. His older sisters all married German aristocrats, and since he didn’t marry Queen Elizabeth until two years after the end of World War II, none of his next of kin except his mother attended their wedding.
The funeral procession begins at 2:40 PM BST or 9:40 PM ET. His chest, flanked by eight military carriers, is placed in a modified Land Rover – which Philip helped design – and moved from Windsor Castle to St. George’s Chapel. Members of the armed forces will guard the route and fire salutes during the procession.
The following members of the royal family walk in procession behind the coffin: Prince Charles and his sons, Princes William and HarryPrincess Anne and her husband, Vice Admiral Tim Laurence, and son, Peter Phillips; Prince Andrew; Prince Edward and his son, Forfar, Viscount Sevrin; and Earl Snowden.
Harry, that’s been estranged from the royal family since he retired from royal duties in January 2020, he will not walk next to his brother William. In a bombshell interview he and his wife, Meghan, gave to Oprah Winfrey last month, he said that while he and William had “gone through hell together,” they were “on a different road.” Meghan, who is pregnant with the couple’s second child, will not attend the funeral on medical advice not to travel.
The funeral begins at 3 p.m. BST or 10 a.m. ET and is televised all the time. It will not be a state funeral, but rather a ceremonial royal funeral, similar to what was held for the Queen Mother in 2002 and Princess Diana in 1997.
The funeral service is conducted by the Dean of Windsor and is expected to last 50 minutes. All those present wear masks.
During the service, a small choir will sing four pieces of music chosen by Philip.