The Duchess of Kent’s funeral main points and ultimate resting position were showed via Buckingham Palace hours after the royal died elderly 92 on Friday. The palace has published the funeral of Her Royal Highness – whose identify used to be Katharine Worsley – will happen at Westminster Cathedral on 16 September at 2:00pm.
Forward of the funeral, the Duchess of Kent’s coffin will leisure within the personal chapel at Kensington Palace, which is amazingly sentimental as Kensington Palace is the place the Duchess lived along with her husband, the Duke of Kent, who nonetheless recently is living there.
The coffin might be taken via hearse to Westminster Cathedral on 15 September, the place the Ceremony of Reception and Vespers will happen, at the eve of the Requiem Mass. Thereafter, it’ll leisure in a single day within the Girl Chapel.
At the afternoon of 16 September, Their Majesties the King and Queen and contributors of the royal circle of relatives will sign up for the Duke of Kent and contributors of the Duchess’s circle of relatives on the Requiem Mass for the Duchess of Kent. Afterwards, the coffin might be taken via hearse to the Royal Burial Floor at Frogmore, Windsor. Flags might be half-masted in any respect professional Royal Flats flying the Union flag at the day of the funeral.
Buckingham Palace showed information of the Duchess’ demise in a observation on their professional social media channels. It learn: “It’s with deep sorrow that Buckingham Palace declares the demise of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent. Her Royal Highness passed on to the great beyond peacefully final night time at Kensington Palace, surrounded via her circle of relatives. The King and Queen and all contributors of The Royal Circle of relatives sign up for The Duke of Kent, his youngsters and grandchildren in mourning their loss and remembering fondly The Duchess’s life-long devotion to the entire organisations with which she used to be related, her pastime for track and her empathy for younger other folks.”
The King used to be knowledgeable of the Duchess’ passing overdue on Thursday night time at Balmoral, the place he’s recently living. Charles, 76, has licensed that royal mourning must happen till the day of the funeral inclusive.
All over the royal circle of relatives’s professional length of mourning, the royals and their body of workers will put on clothes which can pay suitable tribute throughout this era. The ones in Livery, the Royal Mews and Troops on Public Tasks will put on black armbands. On the subject of royal engagements within the coming weeks, families are taking into consideration the structure and tone of engagements throughout this era, however it’s most likely that some engagements will proceed.
The union flag at Buckingham Palace used to be decreased to 1/2 mast at noon as a mark of admire and a proper framed announcement might be posted at the railings of the royal place of abode in a while.
