Still feeling her presence. Princess Kate said she felt as though the late Queen Elizabeth II sent her family a sign when rainbows appeared in the sky in Balmoral after her death.“In Scotland, how many rainbows turned up?” Prince William reportedly asked his wife, 40, as the pair met with volunteers and operational staff who assisted in the queen’s funeral preparations at Windsor Guildhall on Thursday, September 22. “You hardly ever see rainbows up there, but there were five.”Kate replied, “Her Majesty was looking down on us.”In the wake of the queen’s death on September 8, multiple rainbows were spotted across the United Kingdom, including a double rainbow that broke through the clouds over Buckingham Palace around the time the news broke.
The following day, the royal family saw five rainbows above Balmoral Castle, where the queen died at age 96. One day before her funeral on Monday, September 19, a rainbow appeared once more over London’s Westminster Hall, where the late monarch was lying in state.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been open about grieving Elizabeth in the week since her death. “On Thursday, the world lost an extraordinary leader, whose commitment to the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth was absolute,” William, 40, said in a statement shared via social media on September 10. “I, however, have lost a grandmother.
And while I will grieve her loss, I also feel incredibly grateful. I have had the benefit of the queen’s wisdom and reassurance into my fifth decade.”He continued, “My wife has had twenty years of her guidance and support.
My three children have got to spend holidays with her and create memories that will last their whole lives.”Amid the official period of mourning, a source told Us
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