By Sheila Mckenzie-
Prince William has spoken about the ordeal of taking part in yesterday’s procession, in which he walked behind the Queen’s coffin, telling a member of the public that it “brought back a few memories”.
Prince William described walking behind the Queen’s coffin as challenging, saying it evoked memories of his walk behind his mother Diana’s coffin in 1997.
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The tragic death of his mother, Princess Diana-who died in a car crash in France 25 years ago, sees a lifetime ago, but the sorrow and poignant moment of walking behind his mother’s coffin is one that will stay with him for life. It was his mother, whom he loved, and now, having to undergo the same experience with his grandmother’s death must have bene very painful indeed.
The over half hour long funeral procession on Wednesday saw Charles along with his siblings Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward walk together behind their mother’s coffin.
It was a moving experience, one filled with sadness and sorrow.
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Speaking to mourners at Sandringham today, the heir apparent to the throne added: “It’s one of these moments where you kinda think to yourself I’ve prepared myself for this but I’m not that prepared.
“It’s this weird kind of thing… because we knew she was 96″.
Thousands of people travelled to the Norfolk estate to pay their respects.
Flowers have been piling up by the Norwich Gates to Sandringham House since Her Majesty’s death a week ago.
Prince William and Kate held hands solemnly as they viewed the tributes people had left to his grandmother, while a large crowd gathered behind metal barriers. It has been a very emotional few days for the new Prince of Wales and his wife.
The couple who have had a few challenging couple of years following the rift in the royal family with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, have had to brave their tough internal family issues to mourn the death of the Queen whom the future king described as ”everybody’s grandmother” .
On top of that they have had to endure knowledge of pathetic individuals who chose to express their personal issues with the royal family through protests, lacking the common decency to appreciate the significance of losing a family member who meant so much to them, and mourn her death in the full glare of the public.
And it is not over yet, because the family still have the funeral ahead of them. The reality of the queen’s demise might sink in much deeper then; even then the period of mourning does not really stop for those feeling the full loss of their loved one.
A very large section of the British public has never known any other monarch. The whole country grew up seeing the queen on our television screens. Every christmas, every time there was a new government, and many other occasions, year after year. It is a deep time of national loss.
Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, also travelled to Manchester to meet people at St Ann’s Square.
“Thank you very much indeed, thank you everybody,” Prince Edward said before leaving to a round of applause.
The couple will light a candle in memory of the Queen at the city’s cathedral and view the book of condolence at Manchester’s Central Library.
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