Duchess Sophie is invisible on Remembrance Sunday

Duchess Sophie
Royal fans miss her alongside Camilla and Kate on Remembrance Sunday

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November 13, 2023

Duchess Sophie is invisible on Remembrance Sunday

Royal fans around the world watched the BBC broadcast of the Remembrance Sunday celebrations in London on Sunday, November 12, 2023. In focus: King Charles, 74, Prince William, 41, Princess Anne, 72, and Prince Edward, 59, who laid wreaths at the Cenotaph memorial in Whitehall to honor soldiers who died in the war. The cameras were of course also aimed at Queen Camilla, 76, and Duchess Catherine, 41, who watched the ceremony from the balcony of the Foreign Office. A familiar sight from recent years, but one that unexpectedly irritated the online community.

“Where was the Duchess of Edinburgh today?” asked one viewer on X (formerly Twitter). Another wrote: “Sophie is usually on the same balcony as Camilla and Catherine, I thought.” Actually: Duchess Sophie, 58, was apparently left out of the broadcast. “The Duchess of Edinburgh was on the other balcony. The TV coverage didn’t show her,” explained another royal fan. And that’s right: the royal shared one of the rather small viewing points with Vice Admiral Sir this year Timothy Laurence, 68, Princess Anne’s husband. By the way, this is not new, because in 2022 she will be watching the wreath-laying ceremony in the company of Richard, 2nd Duke of Gloucester, 79, and his wife Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, 77. Sophie was still there in 2021 next to the current queen and the wife of the heir to the throne confessed to one of the balconies, but which was changed last year by the death of Queen Elizabeth†96, changed hierarchy within the royal family now literally gives Camilla and Catherine a unique selling point during the memorial service.

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Sources used: X (formerly Twitter)

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