Only 30 guests are allowed to go to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, because of the UK’s severe COVID-19 limitations. There is a long list of British royals on the list of people to attend, as well as some of the prince’s German relatives.
The guest list for Prince Philip’s funeral
- Queen Elizabeth II will attend her husband’s funeral at St George’s Chapel on Saturday. She should sit alone wearing a mask at the ceremony because of strict Covid rules.
- Prince Charles is among the 30 visitors selected to join in. The funeral will be a restrained affair, by current COVID-19 limitations in the UK.
- He will be joined by his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
- Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s second child and only daughter, Princess Anne, will be at the funeral.
- Princess Anne’s husband, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, will likewise be part of the funeral parade.
- Prince Andrew will likewise be there. The Duke of York created a ruckus when he supposedly demanded to be permitted to wear the military uniform of an Admiral to the funeral, despite having moved away from royal duties in 2019. It’s since been determined that none of the senior royals will wear military clothing for the procedures.
- Prince Philip’s youngest son, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex will join his siblings at the funeral.
- Sophie, Countess of Wessex, will join her husband Edward at the service.
- The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will go to the funeral yet their three children will not go with them.
- Prince Harry has flown back to the UK from his home in California to attend the funeral and is at present undertaking five days of quarantine at Frogmore Cottage. It is the first time the prince will be brought together with his family since his explosive Oprah interview.
- Princess Beatrice of York, the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew, will be among the 30 guests to join in.
- British property developer and the husband of Princess Beatrice, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, will likewise be there.
- Beatrice’s younger sister Princess Eugenie will join her however their mom, Sarah Ferguson, has not been invited. Ferguson divorced Prince Andrew in 1996, however, the pair stay close.
- Princess Eugenie’s husband Jack Brooksbank will join his wife.
- Prince Philip’s eldest grandchild, Princess Anne’s son Peter Phillips, will attend the ceremony. He will walk in between Prince William and Prince Harry during the parade following their grandfather’s coffin. Notwithstanding, his ex-wife, Autumn Phillips, didn’t cut.
- Peter’s sister, Zara Tindall, will likewise be there.
- Zara’s husband, previous rugby union player Mike Tindall, will go with his wife. Tindall officially reported his retirement from professional rugby in 2014. The couple recently welcomed their third child, Lucas, however, the newborn child isn’t on the list of participants, despite being only a few weeks old.
- Prince Edward and Sophie’s daughter, Lady Louise, will join in.
- Lady Louise’s younger brother, Viscount Severn, will be the youngest person present at the ceremony. At 13, he is the most youthful grandchild of the Queen and Prince Philip.
- Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, will be there. She has been a close friend of both Prince Philip and the Queen for a long time.
- The second Earl of Snowdon, David Armstrong-Jones, will join in. He is the eldest son of the Queen’s only sister, Princess Margaret.
- The Queen’s niece, Lady Sarah Chatto, and her husband Daniel Chatto will be there to support their auntie.
- Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, made the select list of visitors to join in. He is Queen Elizabeth’s cousin and the son of Prince Henry and Princess Alice.
- Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, has been invited. The prince is Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin through their dads, Prince George, Duke of Kent, and King George VI.
- One more of the Queen’s cousins, Princess Alexandra, the Honorable Lady Ogilvy, will go along with them.
- The Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Phillipp. Prince Charles is among only three of Prince Philip’s German relatives selected to attend the funeral. He is one of the prince’s great-nephews.
- Donatus, the Landgrave of Hesse, will likewise be there. He is the great-nephew of Prince Philip by marriage.
- Bernhard, the hereditary Prince of Baden, his wife Stephanie. Heir to the head of the House of Baden, he is the third German relative on the list of attendees for Prince Philip’s funeral.
