Queen Camilla will now not attend the Duchess of Kent’s funeral on Tuesday, 16 September. An legit commentary launched via Buckingham Palace showed: “With nice feel sorry about, Her Majesty The Queen has withdrawn from attendance at this afternoon’s Requiem Mass for The Duchess of Kent as she is convalescing from acute sinusitis. Her ideas and prayers can be with The Duke of Kent and the entire circle of relatives.” Because of happen at Westminster Cathedral, King Charles and different senior royals can pay their respects in what’s going to be the primary Catholic funeral staged for a member of the royal circle of relatives in fashionable instances.
In line with the NHS, sinusitis is the “swelling of the sinuses, most often brought about via an an infection”, which normally clears up in a question of weeks. Following the Queen Consort’s determination to leisure in Windsor, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, has been knowledgeable of her absence and has wanted Camilla a rapid restoration. With President Donald Trump scheduled to land in the United Kingdom for a state discuss with on Wednesday, Camilla remains to be anticipated to partake as deliberate. This is not the primary time that the Queen has been compelled to cancel an engagement because of in poor health well being. Again in November, the 78-year-old was once recommended via docs to leisure after coming down with a chest an infection.
Katharine, Duchess of Kent’s funeral comes lower than two weeks after her passing was once showed on Friday, 5 September. The Palace mentioned: “It’s with deep sorrow that Buckingham Palace declares the loss of life of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent.”Her Royal Highness gave up the ghost peacefully final night time at Kensington Palace, surrounded via her circle of relatives. The King and Queen and all individuals 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 was once related, her hobby for tune and her empathy for younger other people.”
© GettyKatharine, who was once a religious follower of the Roman Catholic religion, marked a royal first after changing to Catholicism in 1994. Describing it as “a long-pondered non-public determination”, she was once gained into the Roman Catholic Church via the overdue Cardinal Hume in a non-public rite held at Westminster Cathedral. In consequence, her funeral will deviate from royal custom.
© Max MumbyForward of the funeral, the overdue royal’s coffin was once taken via hearse to Westminster Cathedral on Monday, prior to resting in a single day within the Woman Chapel. Rallying across the Duke of Kent, Woman Amelia Windsor, Woman Marina Windsor and Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, joined their grandfather to observe the coffin procession, which started at Kensington Palace. Transported in a hearse that the overdue Queen Elizabeth II designed, the Royal Dragoon Guards, a regiment which Katharine previously supported as Deputy Colonel-in-Leader, carried her coffin from the royal hearse into the cathedral.
Following the procession, the Duchess of Kent’s circle of relatives took phase within the non-public funeral rites later that night. As is custom, the funeral rites incorporated the Ceremony of Reception, the place the coffin is sprinkled with holy water, incorporated tune, hymns and tributes.
