Buckingham Palace on Thursday announced the names of the 30 people who will participate Prince Philip’s funeral Saturday. The number of participants is limited to 30 due to the United Kingdom COVID-19 restrictions – and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not attend either.
Burial is limited to queen Elizabeth and Philip’s four children, eight grandchildren, their wives, the children of the late Princess Margaret and several members of Philip’s Greek and German family.
The complete list of participants is as follows:
- queen Elizabeth
- Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- Princess Anne and her husband, Vice Admiral Tim Laurence
- Prince Andrew
- Princess Edward, his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and their children, Forfar, Viscount Severn and Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor
- Prince William and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Prince Harry
- Peter Phillips
- Zara and Mike Tindall
- Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
- Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank
- Lady Sarah and her husband, Daniel Chatto
- Earl Snowdon
- Duke of Gloucester
- Duke of Kent
- Princess Alexandra
- Bernhard, the hereditary prince of Baden
- Prince Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse
- Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Philip, which died April 9 at the age of 99, was born Prince Philip of Greece, the fifth and only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice. His family fled the Greek revolutionaries a year after he was born and was reportedly taken out of the country in a fruit box. His older sisters all married German aristocrats, and since he married Queen Elizabeth just two years after the end of World War II, none of his surviving relatives, except his mother, have attended the wedding.
The funeral procession will start at 14:40 BST or 21:40 ET. His coffin, surrounded by eight military carriers, will be placed in a modified Land Rover – which Philip helped design – and moved from Windsor Castle to St George’s Chapel. Members of the armed forces will line up the route and fire cannons in salute during the procession.
The following members of the royal family will go in procession behind the coffin: Prince Charles and his sons, Princes William and Harry; Princess Anne and her husband, Vice Admiral Tim Laurence, and her son, Peter Phillips; Prince Andrew; Prince Edward and his son, Forfar, Viscount Sevrin; and Earl Snowden.
Harry, that was alienated from the Royal Family since he relinquished his royal duties in January 2020, he will not go after his brother William. In a bombshell interview, he and his wife, Meghan, gave him Oprah Winfrey last month, he said that although he and William “went through hell together,” they were on “different paths.” Meghan, who is pregnant with the couple’s second child, will not attend the funeral with the doctor’s advice not to travel.
The funeral will begin at 3:00 p.m. BST or 10 a.m. ET and will be televised throughout. It will not be a state funeral, but rather a royal ceremonial funeral, similar to what was held for the Queen Mother in 2002 and Princess Diana in 1997.
The funeral service will be led by the Dean of Windsor and is expected to last 50 minutes. All participants will wear masks.
During the service, a small choir of four will play musical pieces chosen by Philip.