Also present are the Turkish presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro, the Japanese emperor Naruhito for his first trip abroad since his accession to the throne in 2019, or the Saudi prince Mohammed ben Salmane, known as “MBS”. Many crowned heads have been invited, like Prince Albert of Monaco or the King of Spain Felipe VI, as well as his father Juan Carlos I, who abdicated in 2014 and now lives in exile in the United Arab Emirates.
Princes William and Harry, who were reunited again on Saturday evening on the occasion of a funeral wake for the eight grandchildren of Elizabeth II, will not be together this evening. For this dinner at the palace preceding the funeral the next day, Meghan’s husband and his wife were not invited, they were more precisely removed from the list, because they left their royal functions by settling in 2020 in the States -United. A decision they discovered through the press…
Elizabeth II will be buried privately in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, west London, with her father King George VI and her husband Prince Philip.