The big day is here. This Monday, September 19, all the cameras and eyes from around the world are riveted on the United Kingdom for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. A historic event that promises to be rich in emotion. If the heads of state and members of other royal families will be present to accompany the Sovereign on her final journey, it is above all the members of the Windsor clan who will be scrutinized. Among them are King Charles III, his wife Camilla, Queen Consort, Kate Middleton and Prince William, Princess and Prince of Wales and their children, George, 9, and Charlotte, 7.
Until the end, the presence of the two eldest of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was expected and it was confirmed. If Prince William was surely reluctant to bring them, he who knows how traumatic such an event can be for a child, he finally accepted that they are present, George now being second in the order of succession to the throne. At 9, he is also fully aware of what the death of his great-grandmother Elizabeth II means. He also realizes what his “Gan-Gan“represented to the world, which is not the case of Prince Louis.
At 4 years old, the youngest of Kate Middleton and Prince William is still too young to grasp the meaning of life and especially of death. The only question that torments him since the disappearance of Elizabeth II for the moment: the summer days with the family spent at Balmoral where everyone gathered around the Sovereign. As the Duchess of Cambridge revealed to David Hurley, Governor of Australia, Louis’ concerns are far from the interest of the Crown: “The youngest asks ‘Do you think we can still play the usual games when we go to Balmoral?’ and other questions of the kind because the queen will not be there anymore“, revealed David Hurley to the DailyMail. Touching candor from the Jubilee star.
Last June, when Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 70th anniversary, her Platinum Jubilee, she was literally upstaged by 4-year-old Prince Louis. The little brother of Charlotte and George had indeed multiplied the grimaces at the side of the Sovereign, with whom he had even exchanged a few words and smiles on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Thus, Prince Louis had become THE star of the event in spite of himself. Impossible to realize then that it would be one of the last times he would see his great-grandmother.