Feel sorry for Harry walking behind the Queens coffin

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It must be very triggering for him, i feel for him.

And if protocol is so important, why is Andrew going to be wearing his military uniform?

For the funeral? I understood he won't be.

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The hand holding thing is tricky. I don't see it as a bad thing per se but it isn't generally considered appropriate at such events (although I'm not entirely sure why).

It probably matters a less what Harry and Meghan do than, say, Charles and Camilla or William and Kate.
Besides, it may cause more speculation if Harry and Meghan are seen not holding hands, since it's their habit to do so.

Surely Someone will bring the DC over for them?

At the lying in state Andrew is wearing military uniform.

I bet Harry doesn't care less about "appropriate behave" after that walk and what happened to his mum. There absolutely nothing appropriate about any of that.
The man was crying,his loving wife held his hand.

No more so than any other member of the family! Maybe he rightly has guilt etched on his face? He and his wife spent the end of his GPs lives, slinging mud for ££ and he was in such a pet, that he refused an invitation to stay in Scotland with his father the week she died.

Harry is being banned from wearing his military uniform as it is not protocol - he is not a working Royal.
But Andrew is also not a working Royal and can wear his military uniform at the lying in state.
So the protocol is ignored when they want to if you are a favoured family member.

@pip That is vile. He refused a last-minute invitation to stay with Charles in Scotland as he was booked up with charity events in London.

They could have gone, they finished their engagements. It was all point scoring re the security case.

Princess Alice had serious mental health problems and spent years in hospital when Philip was a young boy. His father disappeared also, and he was shipped between family. The sister who he was closest to was killed in the plane crash. He had a shocking start to life - living virtually as an orphan - and I love the fact that he and Her Majesty built a good life together, despite the inevitable hiccups.

Princess Alice seems to have been a very interesting character, started an order of Nuns (or whatever the correct expression might be!), and I think she attended the Queen's coronation in her Nun's habit.

To be honest Harry is stand out among that bunch and one reason is because he's not in military uniform..

Hardly, given that Prince Andrew and Peter Phillips weren't in uniform either.

Yes novum,I can see a number of men are in dress and mourning clothes.

So he stands out because he isn't hidden under cap's and regalia,but her additionally stands out because.. I don't know,he is taller?
His presence??

He simply stands out. Also I think the hair colour makes me think of royalty and Henry's viii.

I think she attended the Queen's coronation in her Nun's habit.

She did indeed.

She was a fascinating character. Her actions during the war are very interesting reading.

she's honoured as Righteous by Yad Vashem.

@antelopevalley , I'm not wrong. Charles told Sir Robert Fellowes he could "impale himself on his own flagpole" because the Queen and her advisers wanted Diana to rest in a private funeral home and Charles wanted her to be taken to a royal palace. This argument took place before he even left for Paris so within hours of her death.
If you look at pictures of her coffin leaving the hospital in Paris it is draped in the Royal Standard. It had nothing to do with the public.

Not true. He and Meghan were in the UK the weekend before any events started, and a couple of spare days in the week. He could have easily slotted in a night in Scotland - had he wanted to. He clearly didn't.

Princess Alice of Greece was an amazing lady. She puts MM and PH pretences at humanitarianism to shame. The woman gave everything she had including food at times to others.

Okay. Well the public was all told it would be a private funeral which Diana's brother complained about. This went on for several days before there was a u turn. So I guess it was the Queen insisting on that.

OK so it turns out Mike and Zara Tindall were holding hands too. So there's really not much to see here.

The pain and thoughts are etched over Harry's face.

Princess Anne seemed to be struggling considerably more.

But they weren't on display - or at least, I didn't see them holdings hands and I watched the whole ceremony. Because of the prominence of H & M in the procession, them holding hands was very obvious. It was a military procession - I would have expected Harry to know better.

Harry was not held to Military standards. If his wife felt he needed some support by hand holding then so what? If the others members of the family felt they themselves should not hold hands then so what?

This stuff always just comes across as petty. Especially as they ignore protocol when they want to.

They weren’t doing anything on the Wednesday or they could have tagged on a couple of days after their final event ?

Talking to Oprah was certainly ignoring protocol - as is releasing a 'tell all' book which people will buy purely because of the RF association. Life's about choices, and we all face the consequences of the choices we make.