Prince William & Prince Harry Stand United With Cousins During Queen’s Vigil: Photos

Prince William and Prince Harry, on with their six cousins, stood agreed astatine the ft and caput of Queen Elizabeth’s coffin astatine Westminster Hall connected Saturday (September 17). During the peculiar vigil, the 8 grandchildren –including Peter Phillips, Zara Tindall, Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, Lady Louise Windsor, and James, Viscount Severn — gathered astir the precocious monarch to wage their respects with a 15 infinitesimal amusement of quiescent contemplation.

Prince Harry and Prince William stood adjacent to each different astatine the Queen’s vigil. (Ian Vogler/WPA Pool/Shutterstock)

At King Charles III’s request, Prince Harry was granted permission to deterioration his subject uniform, arsenic helium was expecting to deterioration civilian covering since he’s no longer a moving royal. He had donned civilian cogwheel for Wednesday’s ceremonial procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall. While Prince William besides sported his subject garb astatine the vigil, the six different grandchildren were successful Morning Coat and Dark Formal Dress with Decorations.

The determination was different motion that King Charless III is looking to reconcile with his younger lad arsenic relations betwixt the families person been strained recently. After Harry and Meghan stepped backmost from royal duties and moved to the United States, interactions betwixt the mates and the royal household person been each but non-existent. The Sussexes were already visiting the U.K. for foundation events erstwhile the Queen passed away, but, as antecedently reported, determination were nary plans to sojourn with William and Kate, nor his ain father.

Prince William and Prince Harry led their six cousins into the Queen’s vigil. (Ian Vogler/WPA Pool/Shutterstock)

Despite Prince William and Prince Harry’s spouses, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle respectively, not being allowed to be the vigil, the foursome had already reunited earlier successful the week extracurricular of Windsor Castle. The 2 couples greeted onlookers arsenic they viewed tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth II. In a connection from Buckingham Palace, a royal spokesperson said William, who is present called the Prince of Wales, “invited the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to articulation him and the Princess of Wales” for the walkabout.

The reunion came conscionable hours aft William witnessed the Accession Ceremony, wherever his father, King Charles III, was officially proclaimed the sovereign. Two days aft the death of his mother, the erstwhile prince was elevated to the throne successful an elaborate, centuries-old ceremony, which took spot astatine St. James Palace and was broadcast unrecorded for the archetypal time.