King Charles III left his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, a handwritten note on top of her coffin — just like his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, did for Princess Diana 25 years earlier.
walked behind their grandmother’s casket on Monday, royal watchers across the world were transported back to their late mother’s funeral, in which the young princes — now 40 and 38, then 15 and 12, respectively — marched silently as they followed behind Diana’s coffin.Diana, 7 DaysKing Charles III
paid tribute to the late sovereign with a touching gesture that echoed one his sons made at their own mother’s funeral 25 years earlier. The new monarch placed a note on top of Elizabeth’s casket that read, “In loving and devoted memory, Charles R” — a callback to the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex’s card to Diana, which was also adorned on top of her coffin. “Mummy,” the princes wrote on the envelope.
The Duke of Cambridge remarked upon the similarities to a bystander following the queen’s procession to Westminster Hall. William spoke about “how difficult it was … and
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