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How Prince William & Kate Middleton Feel About Prince George's Coronation Role
The Prince and Princess of Wales are honoring Queen Elizabeth II successful a peculiar way.
On what would've been the precocious monarch's 97th birthday, Prince William and Kate Middleton shared a never-before-seen household representation of Her Majesty sitting beside immoderate of her youngest grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Alongside the photograph shared to their authoritative Instagram April 21—snapped by Kate herself—they noted, "This photograph - showing her with immoderate of her grandchildren and large grandchildren - was taken astatine Balmoral past summer."
As for the royal breakdown of who precisely was successful attendance? Though Queen Elizabeth had 8 grandchildren, it was her youngest two—whose parents are Prince Edward and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh—that are seen lasting successful the backmost row: Lady Louise Windsor, 19, and James, Earl of Wessex, 15.
Meanwhile, retired of the Queen's 12 great-grandkids, William and Kate's 3 children, Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4, alongside their cousins, Isla Phillips, 11, (whose dada is Peter Phillips) and Lena Tindall, 4 (whose ma is Zara Tindall) stood close successful the middle.
And past but not least, sitting beside the Queen herself would beryllium Lena's siblings, Mia, 9, and Lucas, 2, and Isla's older sister, Savannah, 12.
The royally touching photograph comes 7 months aft Buckingham Palace announced Queen Elizabeth's passing. In a heartbreaking connection shared aft her death, Prince William honored his beloved "Grannie."
"I person mislaid a grandmother," his Sept. 10 connection work successful part. "And portion I volition grieve her loss, I besides consciousness incredibly grateful. I person had the payment of The Queen's contented and reassurance into my 5th decade."
He added, "I convey her for the kindness she showed my household and me. And I convey her connected behalf of my procreation for providing an illustration of work and dignity successful nationalist beingness that was from a antithetic age, but ever applicable to america all. My grandma famously said that grief was the terms we wage for love."
The 40-year-old besides took enactment of his father, King Charles III, whose coronation volition instrumentality spot successful aboriginal May, sharing that he'll grant his grandmother's representation "by supporting my father, The King, successful each mode I can."
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