George and Charlotte to join procession

[Dodie66]

Just reporting on the news George and Charlotte will join the procession inside the cathedral

MN is weird about children at funerals.

It will be a restrained & calm environment, and the service is only an hour long. I think we can trust their very thoughtful and experienced parents to know what's best for the children.

Louis is to young, he is only 4 even though he does look older. The other children won't be by themselves. Their parents will be in front of them and they will be surrounded by other family members. They are basically just walking to their seats.

Presumably they don’t want to.

The walk from Buckingham palace to Westminster hall was 40 minutes. A forty min walk, in front of the public, may simply be something they don’t want to do.

I would also wonder if there’s a tradition aspect to it. I didn’t do the cords at my Nana’s funeral because I knew that she, like many of her generation, didn’t think women should. I think that’s nonsense and women can do it just as easily as men, but at her funeral I respected my grandmothers stance.

There isn’t space on the OOS to have the four Wales titles in a row. There’s nothing W & C have done with their children so far to suggest they’re suddenly going to start throwing them to the wolves without a care for them.

I’m not surprised Louis isn’t going. I imagine within the wider family they’ve made a decision to take the older bunch - George, Charlotte, the Phillips girls and probably Mia - and not the younger cohort. The press made such a big thing of his behaviour during the jubilee I wouldn’t trust them not to make a big thing of any normal 4 year old things.

If they’re only walking from the entrance of the Abbey to their seats I really can’t see the big deal. There will be lots of people, but it is largely invited dignitaries so they’re unlikely to be visibly upset. Their parents will know how upset the children are likely to be - a great many children that age would simply be a little bit sad rather than really upset at the death of an elderly great-grandmother.

It might seem strange to many people that they’re walking as a pair rather than with their parents, but that won’t necessarily seem strange to them. I imagine they’re quite used to formal church services where everyone walks in in pairs.

In this context, I think it's because they're inlaws, rather than blood relatives. At least, the Vigil of Princes in London was more than half female, but they weren't the spouses, they were those who were direct descendents of the Queen.

I'm surprised Louis isn't going to be I don't think he's too young either.

he is absolutely too young to be expected to sit still and behave during a long, solemn ceremony! It's not a joyful occasion like the Jubilee.

It might seem strange to many people that they’re walking as a pair rather than with their parents, but that won’t necessarily seem strange to them. I imagine they’re quite used to formal church services where everyone walks in in pairs.

I think they’ll walk with their parents. There’s just not enough space for all 4 Wales titles in one line.

Theyve got the Duke of Gloucester on a separate line from the Duke of Kent and Prince Michael yet I’d bet they will walk as a 3 as they did at the hall.

Very interesting to see Fergie arriving with the Queen’s grandchildren.

Oh glad fergie went

According to Hello they were supposed to walk behind their parents. But they decided at the last minute to have them walk in between. That was I think the right decision.
I do not think Louis is too young to go to an ordinary family funeral. He may be at the private one. But the state one is different. You can't sit at the back of the church and easily nip out if he is too restless.

I think that’s a magazine backtracking - there’s no way they were ever walking behind. Kate had Charlotte’s hand from the moment they left the car.

There just wasn’t space on the page to have them all listed on one line

My child is the same age as Louis and is absolutely too young. Too unpredictable and too mischievous for anything of this
Kind. I understand totally why he wasn't there

That's the magazine desperately backtracking its disinformation.
As several pp have said there was no room on the order of service to list all 4 Wales' in the same line. They walked in with their mother to join their father. They were always going to walk all together.

Over the top reaction.

For one thing, Diana was Harry and William's mother whereas the Queen was their Great-grandmother. It wouldn't be equally as traumatic in that case!

As you can see, they were fine and well behaved.

I swear some people just want to be negative about everything to do with the State Funeral. 🙄

Obviously, I meant she was George and Charlotte's Great-grandmother.

I find it strange that when the Queen died Royal Family supporters said George, Charlotte and Louis would be devastated, but at her funeral suddenly it is no big deal.
i think walking between their parents into the service is okayish. The original plan though was for them to walk alone and the initial announcement sounded like they would be in the procession outside.

The original plan though was for them to walk alone

no it wasn't.

their names wouldn't all fit on one line of the order of service, that's all.

They were never walking alone and the announcement was very clear, lots of people just read as far as the word “procession” and assumed.

I posted a link to a news article saying they were supposed to walk alone and there was a last minute change.

"According to Hello" 😂

Given that neither BBC nor ITV said that. Not even the daily Mail said that I think that’s very clearly Hello correcting their own assumptions

We've told you on many threads @antelopevalley you can't believe everything you read in the media

I just don't get the suggestion that at 9 George is too young. THere are probably boys in the choir who are younger who are expected to work as well as behave. If any of them have recently lost a grandparent or other close relative it could be quite triggering for them to attend today.