Prince George and Princess Charlotte were given their second role of the day following discussions with their parents the Prince and Princess of Wales.The great grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth II had walked behind the coffin as it was taken into Westminster Abbey on Monday 19 September for the state funeral. It was unknown whether George, nine, and his younger sister Charlotte, seven, would be taking up the same role during the procession to Windsor Castle from London as their names did not feature in the order of service. However, for the second time of the day, the young royals took their places walking alongside their mum Kate Middleton, 40, and Queen Consort Camilla, 75, while his grandfather King Charles III, 73, and father Prince William, 40, walked behind the monarch's coffin.
The 1960s London legend 'Soho George', 80, who still wears dapper suits and struts around the West End
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READ MORE: 60s Soho Windmill girl on dating film stars and now being a 'famous granny'I meet George at Bar Italia in Firth Street - which has also been here for 73 years - his favourite lunch-time spot for a coffee. It's a stop on his daily four-mile walk around Soho, which he says "keeps me alive". He looks ridiculously cool in his Italian-style suit which he designed himself and which was made by his local tailor Tony Phillips, who has been dressing Soho celebs for 50 years.
His accent is unmistakably Cockney but he's surprisingly quietly spoken and humble, with cool steady eyes behind tinted glasses as he delves into his earliest memories. He tells me was born in Brick Lane in 1943 near the Beigel Bakery - a traditional Jewish bakery. Every Sunday lunch time he he was sent down there by his mum to buy a dozen beigels (Jewish spelling) and some platt sauce.
He'd then go to the Jewish Delhi over the road and get smoked salmon which the staff would lift straight out of barrels. One of his earliest memories is being carried down into the cellar during air raids. He recalls a big light bulb swinging on the ceiling.
It would have been 1943. George didn't know his father until he was seven years old. He was away fighting in one of the parachute regiments and was part of the first wave of troops in Operation Overlord who went in to take the bridges from Nazi forces on D-Day.
After the war he served in Athens and helped put down the Communist insurrection and didn't get back home until 1947. "My mum was very upset because on VE day when there were street parties, all the kids had their parents with them but my dad still wasn't there," says George. "In 1947 I finally met him in Brick Lane, I'd never seen him before.
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in white gloves and made everyone else look like an underdressed child? I think about that a lot. Anyway, seven years later and the Lebanese-British human rights lawyer is as elegant and sophisticated as ever, making a rare appearance in London with her husband, the guy from ER.He is, of course, George Clooney, star of the upcoming romantic comedy ; the Clooneys are currently abroad promoting the movie, so hopefully this is just the first of a few upscale looks from the mom of two.Leaving her hotel hand in hand with her husband, channeled Old Hollywood glam with big waves in her thick black hair, a bold red lip, diamond earrings, and a diamond tennis bracelet. She wore a beaded slip dress paired with soft gray heels, the same color as her nails.
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