Will the children go to the funeral?

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It's often a topic on MN but what do we think about the smaller great-grandchildren attending the Queens funeral? Always a personal choice for parents but this seems so different to a normal GP funeral, I wondered if there was an official etiquette?

I wondered if they might be there but somehow not filmed (don't know how practical that is) or whether they just wouldn't go?

I'm looking at the schedule for Monday and wondering how any of them will be able to function at all by the end of the day!

When my parents and MIL died the day of the funeral was exhausting, so emotionally draining, and that was just a "standard" funeral/crematorium of maybe an hour with family (and wake afterwards)

My DC were tiny when my mum died and I remember the humongous effort it was to do the most basic things for them, by the end of the day. And I had no notion of day/time of day.
Having to be on show an entire day, while repressing emotion because the world's media is on you, seems horrendous.

I think we might see Savannah, Isla, George, Mia and Charlotte at the funeral.

The Queen’s children will be front row so none of the children will be. There will be an agreement with the BBC (I assume they’re controlling the abbey cameras and feeding to everyone) not to linger on faces anyway, more so the children’s.

The procession has been confirmed as being the same 10 walking as the procession to Westminster Hall so the Philips girls would likely travel with Zara, Mike and Mia (whereas had Zara walked that would have been more awkward).

Not what I’d do but that’s what I think will happen

I think given children turned up yesterday that they will be there tonight maybe and at the funeral. If I wanted my children to not attend I would have brought them Tuesday? To say their private goodbyes. But the ones outside London have obviously brought them up for the weekend so I would expect the older 5 to be there and as other members brought their children I would expect a few more. There is an agreement with the BBC to avoid showing them during the funeral and all would be in second row or even further back anyway. Four children and spouses will be front and centre.

They didn’t MAKE them as Charles Spencer made clear in a later interview.

They might not have been told they had to, but you can ask children in a way that is so loaded that they think it’s what everyone does and expected of them and they will lose love from other people if they don’t. Adults don’t realise how loaded their questions and childrens understanding is,

Charles Spencer is irrelevant. Charles and Phillip clearly made them do it.

Nobody really knows what conversations took place, the men themselves probably can't really remember what was said.

Harry clearly regrets it, would he have regretted not walking?

Has William ever said he regrets it?

Philip clearly had no regrets about walking behind his sister and kids.

How do you know that ?

according to sky news, George and Charlotte are in the procession in the Abbey tomorrow