UK ROYAL FAMILY BIDS ADIEU TO PRINCE PHILIP AT INTIMATE FUNERAL

The coffin of Britain's Prince Philip was interred in the royal vault of St George’s Chapel in Windsor at the end of a funeral service that featured just 30 mourners on Saturday, April 17, 2021.

Queen Elizabeth II, his wife of 73 years, was forced to sit alone during the service due to the strict coronavirus regulations in place in England, Isobel Frodsham reported for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).

The prince, who was also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, was laid to rest just over a week after he died aged 99. The queen's expression was not captured by the television cameras during the service.

However, photographers who were permitted to take pictures prior to the start captured the queen, dressed in all black, sitting in her own in a pew and gazing at her husband's coffin.

Other members of the royal family appeared somber during the service.

Prince Philip was entitled to a state funeral due to being the monarch's consort. He rejected it, though for a military-style service to reflect his time served in the British Navy during the Second World War.

Buglers and seafaring hymns featured in the service while members of the Royal Navy senior service, the Royal Marines, and the Royal Regiment of Scotland lined the castle grounds to pay honor to the prince during the procession of his coffin.

The prince also had his own hand in the service, requesting certain prayers to be read and for his coffin to be brought to the chapel in the Land Rover Defender which he spent 18 years modifying.

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