On Saturday April 17, 2021, the royal family of england bid farewell to prince philip. A ceremony during which Prince William and Harry met for the first time since the second left his official duties to move to the United States with Meghan Markle. The latter was also unable to respond present due to her advanced pregnancy. Funerals scrutinized by the whole world which only 30 people were able to attend due to Covid-19. And this, even if the monarch who died at the age of 99 did not want a funeral with great pomp.
A painful moment to which Mike Tindall returned. On Wednesday April 21, 2021, the husband of Zara Tindall confided in these “strange” funeral and mourning “difficult”. In the podcast The Good, The Bad and The Rugby, the 42-year-old sportsman who has always admired the Duke of Edinburgh said: “I hope he’s looking at us from up there and he’s happy”. Thus, he praised the organization and strength of Queen Elizabeth II: “My love for the queen was only stronger, she was sitting there, completely alone”. Before adding: “She’s amazing, literally amazing. She stepped aside. She knows that it is important in these times of health crisis and she wanted to show the example “.
Queen Elizabeth II moved to tears
Usually discreet and modest in her feelings, that day, the grandmother of Prince William and Harry discreetly wiped a tear as she collected herself before bidding farewell to the one who shared his life for more than 70 years . A moment broadcast live on the BCC in the United Kingdom where nearly 13 million of its subjects followed the procession on their small screens. And this, while the channel had received 110,000 complaints from viewers accusing him of too extensive coverage of the death of Prince Philip at the time of the announcement of the death of Prince Charles’ father on Friday, April 9, 2021. The latter died in Windsor where he had been transferred after hospitalization.
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