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See the Similarities Between Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana’s Funerals: Procession and More

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Two royals remembered. 25 years before Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday, September 19, Princess Diana was laid to rest in Althorp in September 1997.While the services may have been different — Her Majesty was honored with a state funeral, while Diana had a royal ceremonial one — both proceedings shared several poignant similarities.As Prince William and Prince Harry walked behind their grandmother’s casket on Monday, royal watchers across the world were transported back to their late mother’s funeral, in which the young princes — now 40 and 38, then 15 and 12, respectively — marched silently as they followed behind Diana’s coffin.“It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, that walk,” William said of the 1997 procession in the 2017 BBC documentary Diana, 7 Days. “It felt like she was almost walking along beside us to get through it.”On Monday, King Charles III paid tribute to the late sovereign with a touching gesture that echoed one his sons made at their own mother’s funeral 25 years earlier.

The new monarch placed a note on top of Elizabeth’s casket that read, “In loving and devoted memory, Charles R” — a callback to the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex’s card to Diana, which was also adorned on top of her coffin. “Mummy,” the princes wrote on the envelope.Ahead of the longest-reigning monarch’s funeral, the royal family accompanied her coffin to Westminster Hall on Wednesday, September 14.

William and Harry were among the individuals that walked alongside the casket, echoing the brothers’ march from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey before their mother’s funerary service.The Duke of Cambridge remarked upon the similarities to a bystander following the queen’s procession to Westminster Hall.

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