Dignitaries From Around The World Pay Respects To Queen Elizabeth Ahead of Funeral

Prince William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales (aka Kate Middleton) visit the Windsor Guildhall to thank volunteers and operational staff involved in her Queen Elizabeth II‘s funeral on Thursday (September 22) in Windsor, UK.

Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle were "very well protected" during a time of great loss – but the Duke of Sussex may still take the British government to court over his security arrangements in the U.K. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, died Sept. 8 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

pulled a Prince Louis during his late great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s funeral on Monday.The 9-year-old son of Prince William and Kate Middleton stuck out his tongue and made a funny face while on the way to Windsor Castle — not unlike his 4-year-old brother who put on a show at the Queen’s Jubilee.Photographer Matt White took the cute snap, showing George sitting next to his younger sister, Princess Charlotte, while they were riding in a car.“I’d seen Prince George and Kate go by and snapped a photo of their car, but it was only a very quick photo so I didn’t think it would be that good,” White told the Daily Mail.The photos were snapped as the royal family made their way to Windsor for the queen’s committal service following her funeral mass at Westminster Abbey. George and Charlotte, 7, joined senior royals throughout the funeral procession and followed the monarch’s casket.

touching state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II was missing two important guests. Though Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were both in attendance, with the Duke of Sussex participating in several processionals surrounding the historic day, neither their 3-year-old son, Archie, nor their 1-year-old daughter, Lilibet, joined their parents for any of the events surrounding the death of their great-grandmother.The two youngsters, who are sixth and seventh in line to the British royal throne behind their father, were home in Montecito, California, while their parents were in the United Kingdom. ET has learned that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex plan to return to California imminently to be reunited with their children. On Monday, royal expert Katie Nicholl told ET's Kevin Frazier in London, «I think we'll probably see the Sussexes on their way back to America very soon.

Penny Lancaster had "great training and preparation" to be part of the police detail on Monday for Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral. "With all that planning going ahead, you can never quite predict how the crowd is [going to] react and the dangers that might lay ahead," the British model and TV personality, who is married to Rod Stewart, told Sky News. "But we’ve had great training and preparation and fortunately, everybody paid their respects in the proper manner, and we didn’t have any incidents to speak of," the 51-year-old shared.

Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral on Monday was truly unlike any we’ve ever seen — and it’s already making UK history.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have returned to the site of their 2018 royal wedding. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were seen back in Windsor, England, on Monday amid the events surrounding thestate funeral, procession, and committal service for Queen Elizabeth II at St. George's Chapel. The funeral took place at Westminster Abbey in London, England, with Harry and Meghan seated behind his father, King Charles III, and stepmother, Camilla, the Queen Consort.

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral was an emotional day for the royal family and the world beyond. On Monday, the members of the royal family took the global stage to say one final farewell to the longest reigning British monarch, who died on Sept.

was one of tradition and military precision, but there were a number of touching and personal details in honor of Her late Majesty too.Atop her coffin, as well as the glittering crown jewels, was a beautiful floral arrangement which had been chosen carefully by the .Poignantly, the wreath features blooms taken from the gardens of Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, and Highgrove House—each with symbolic meanings. According to the palace, the flowers include rosemary for remembrance.

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and Prince William.George, 9, and Charlotte, 7, arrived by car with their mother, dressed in black like the rest of the mourners. Charlotte, for the first time, wore a formal hat—like all other female family members at the service—and her first-ever royal brooch, too.

, the Queen Consort, arrived by car with the Princess of Wales. The two veiled royals, swathed in black as a mark of respect for the late monarch, each chose symbolic jewelry with which to pay tribute to the powerful woman who reigned for 70 years. But while from Her Majesty’s collection, Camilla chose a more intriguing piece from the family’s archive: the Hesse Diamond Jubilee Brooch.King Charles III and the Queen Consort at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey. The heart-shaped pin—featuring the number 60 in Slavonic numerals wrought in diamonds, surrounded by a cabochon sapphire at the top and two large sapphire drops at the bottom—was a gift to Queen Victoria from her grandchildren who were descendants of the late Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine.

had "upset the hierarchy", the Duchess of Sussex paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II by wearing jewellery given to her by the late monarch. Meghan, 41, wore the elegant pair of pearl and diamond drop earrings that had been given to her by her husband's late grandmother when they undertook their first joint solo engagement in June 2018, just a month after she married Prince Harry.

Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn't been invited to Queen Elizabeth's funeral. The 69-year-old politician and other Kremlin representatives have all been blacklisted by Buckingham Palace, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. Dignitaries from Belarus and Myanmar have also been overlooked by the palace, while Iran will only be represented at the funeral on an ambassadorial level.

Well, that’s not what you want at such a somber event.

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. The monarch died on Thursday at the age of 96. In an official statement from the royal family, it was announced that the funeral service will be held Monday, Sept.

With King Charles III having ascended the British throne following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, there's a possibility her upcoming funeral will mark the last time Prince Andrew is seen with the rest of the royal family, according to one expert. Andrew stepped back from royal duties in 2019 after a scandal involving the late American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  "Probably the biggest drama was with Prince Andrew," Shannon Felton Spence, a former British public affairs official and royal expert, told Fox News Digital. "If anything was causing the queen stress, it was him; he was a real, real crisis." While at first it appeared that he was not traveling with the rest of the royal family to Balmoral upon the news of the monarch's death, that turned out to be untrue.

Joe Biden is going to pay his respects.

President Joe Biden confirmed that he will attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, expected to take place in about 10 days.