The Queen has been pictured sitting alone at Prince Philip's funeral in poignant photographs. Dressed all in black and wearing a face mask, footage of the service at St George's Chapel shows Her Majesty heartbreakingly all by herself just prior to her husband's coffin being lowered into the royal vault.
At the Duke’s wishes, the ceremonial rather than state funeral would have been a stripped back affair even without the pandemic.
But because of laws in place to battle the spread of coronavirus everyone in attendance must stay at least two metres apart from anyone not in the same household.
And as the Queen does not live alone, she could not form a bubble with anyone else. At 94-years-old, HM spent much of last year isolating against the
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