Whereas followers of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have pushed the concept the California exiles have been intentionally singled out to be snubbed and humiliated in the course of the 11 days main as much as the Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, they could think about the case of Mary, the princess of Denmark.
Like Harry and Meghan, Princess Mary acquired an invite for a funeral-related occasion that was later rescinded as a result of the powers-that-be realized that she had been despatched the invitation by mistake.
In her case, Mary acquired an invite to attend the state funeral for the queen, which passed off Monday, the Each day Mail reported. On Sept. 13, the Danish royal household confirmed that Mary would attend the funeral along with her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, and his mom, Queen Margrethe II, who was Elizabeth’s third cousin and an in depth pal.
However on the funeral, the Australian-born Mary was a no-show as Margrethe and Frederik, serving as his mom’s plus-one, have been seen arriving at Westminster Abbey.
It was discovered Tuesday that official invites despatched to heads of state solely allowed them to deliver one visitor every to the funeral, the Each day Mail mentioned. That meant that Mary’s authentic invitation was despatched out in “error,” the Each day Mail mentioned.
The British Overseas Workplace on Tuesday confirmed to the Each day Mail that it had despatched an apology to the Danish Royal Family through the Danish Embassy. The “regrettable error” was made due to the Overseas Workplace having to ship out so many invites inside a brief area of time, the Each day Mail mentioned.
Some 2,000 folks have been invited to attend the queen’s funeral, together with Joe Biden and different presidents, prime ministers and heads of royal households from different nations. Overseas royals in attendance included King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, King Philip and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway and Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan.
Following the dying of Elizabeth II at age 96, Queen Margrethe, 82, turns into Europe’s solely ruling remaining monarch. She has dominated for greater than 50 years.
The plight of Margrethe’s daughter-in-law, Mary, considerably echoes an invite snafu final week involving Harry and Meghan. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been mistakenly despatched an invite to attend a reception at Buckingham Palace Sunday night for world leaders and overseas royals.
As The Telegraph reported, after the invitation went out, palace aides declared that solely working members of the royal household would attend. This announcement triggered notable confusion across the Sussexes, who have already got a frosty relationship with Harry’s household.
The Sussexes stopped being working royals in 2020 after they left royal life, moved to California and got down to be change into financially impartial world influencers by signing profitable media offers with Netflix and Spotify.
On Friday night, Harry and Meghan have been instructed that there had been “a mix-up” with the invitation to the reception, The Telegraph mentioned. They have been instructed they have been truly not invited to what has been described as an “official state occasion.”
Consequently, the couple didn’t attend, however this “mix-up” was amongst a number of slights the couple reportedly endured within the days main as much as the queen’s funeral. The Telegraph and different media retailers reported that the fraught relationship between the Sussexes and the royal household was one purpose that the couple discovered themselves outdoors of the primary line of household communications having to do with the queen’s dying on Sept. 8 and planning for her funeral and different occasions.
There have been studies that Harry didn’t obtain phrase from King Charles III that his grandmother was dying till after Prince William and different relations have been notified, leaving him to get his personal flight to Scotland to see her at Balmoral Citadel. Harry acquired information of her dying as he was in flight.
There additionally was confusion about whether or not Harry, an Afghanistan conflict veteran, could be permitted to put on his army uniform to any of the funeral-related occasions — once more as a result of he's not a working member of the royal household. That controversy ended when Buckingham Palace, reportedly on the course of Charles, reversed an edict on uniforms and working-royal standing and allowed Harry to put on his military gown uniform at a vigil Saturday evening at Westminster Corridor.
The seating association for Monday’s funeral at Westminster Abbey additionally stirred controversy, when Harry and Meghan discovered themselves within the second row. Media retailers declared that the second-row seats should represent one other snub.
Royal sources instructed the Each day Beast Tuesday that the seating for the queen’s eight grandchildren and their spouses wasn’t organized by their place within the line of succession however by age. That’s the rationale that Harry, 38, was seated within the second row, whereas his brother William, 40, and his older cousins, Peter Phillips, 44, and Zara Tindall, 41, received entrance row seats.
In the meantime, again to Princess Mary’s invitation controversy: It didn’t fairly finish with the Overseas Workplace acknowledging its mistake and issuing an apology to the Danish royal household.
The Each day Mail reported that questions additionally have been raised over why Spain and the Netherlands have been allowed to deliver greater than two royal company every to the funeral.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, of the Netherlands, have been accompanied by his mom, Princess Beatrix, whereas Spain’s former King Juan Carlos I and his spouse, Sofia, additionally attended the funeral in alongside along with his son, the present king, and his daughter-in-law.
Certainly, Juan Carlos’ presence on the funeral ignited controversy in Spain, the Each day Mail mentioned. The disgraced former monarch, 84, abdicated the throne in 2014 over corruption allegations involving enterprise offers with Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah. He has been residing in self-imposed exile in Abu Dhabi ever since.
Juan Carlos was reportedly requested to not attend Elizabeth’s funeral by Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchéz, the Each day Mail reported, however Juan Carlos turned up anyway. Sanchéz solely needed the present king, Felipe, and his spouse to signify Spain on the funeral.