Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, stand on the balcony of the Buckingham Palace during the Trooping the Colour parade in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, in London/REUTERSPix: Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were on Friday expected to make their first public appearance in Britain in two years, at a Platinum Jubilee church service for Queen Elizabeth II.
In the evening, she was at Windsor Castle for a ceremony to light beacons across the country and the Commonwealth of 54 nations that she also heads. The queen’s disgraced second son Prince Andrew, sidelined from royal duties over his links to two convicted sex offenders and absent on Thursday, will also miss the service after testing positive for Covid.
Afterwards, there will be a rare ringing of the largest church bell in the country, the 16.5-tonne Great Paul. But less than two years later they quit royal life and moved to the United States, launching a series of damaging broadsides, including of racism.