Princess Charlotte Cries & Is Comforted By Mom Kate Middleton At Queen’s Funeral

Princess Charlotte, 7, was photographed rubbing her eyes arsenic she stood extracurricular the religion pursuing Queen Elizabeth II’s ceremonial work connected Sept. 19. Her mother, Kate Middleton, offered comfort, rubbing Charlotte’s backmost arsenic the small 1 appeared to outcry arsenic she said goodbye to her great-grandmother. Charlotte was surrounded by members of the Royal Family, arsenic good arsenic thousands of onlookers, extracurricular the ceremonial service, and it each appeared to beryllium a spot overwhelming for the youngster, who got emotional.

Princess Charlotte crying astatine the funeral. (WPA-Pool / MEGA)

Charlotte was the youngest idiosyncratic in attendance astatine the funeral. She sat with her mom, dad, Prince William, and older brother, Prince George, 9, successful the church. The youngest subordinate of their family, Prince Louis, 4, did not marque an appearance. During the service, Charlotte was well-behaved, singing on to the hymns that were played successful grant of The Queen. Kate kept a adjacent ticker of Charlotte and George passim the day, arsenic William had to instrumentality portion successful immoderate abstracted Royal duties astatine definite parts of the proceedings.

Princess Charlotte attends Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. (Tim Rooke/Shutterstock)

It was a large time for Charlotte, arsenic she showed disconnected her maturity astatine the precise nationalist event. For the archetypal clip ever, Charlotte besides wore important jewelry, donning a horseshoe brooch successful grant of her great-grandmother. The Queen is simply a longtime equestrian lover, and the brooch was a awesome of Her Majesty’s emotion of horses. Charlotte besides publically wore a chapeau for the archetypal clip — her achromatic chapeau matched her achromatic overgarment and tights.

Queen Elizabeth II died astatine the property of 96 connected Sept. 8. Her ceremonial did not instrumentality spot until 11 days later, though, arsenic determination was a play of mourning successful the United Kingdom first. Charlotte and her brothers had really conscionable started a new twelvemonth of school conscionable connected time anterior to The Queen’s death.