After years of family tension, Prince Harry attended his father’s coronation alone. Harry’s wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is at home in California with the couple’s children, Prince Archie, who turned 4 on Saturday, and Princess Lilibet, 1. Arranged the equivalent of a table at the back of the room at the wedding reception, Harry sat in the third row of the convent, next to Jack Brooksbank, the husband of his cousin, Princess Eugenie.
Seated in the front row were Prince William, Charles’ heir, and his wife, Catherine, Princess of Wales, dressed in elaborately decorated gowns to show their class in the royal family. . The king’s sister, Princess Anne, also wore a similar outfit. Harry wore a casual gray morning suit, decorated with his military service medals. Prince Andrew, who disgraced second son of Queen Elizabeth IIdressed in formal attire despite no longer being a working member of the royal family.
Presidents, international monarchs, British politicians and celebrities were also among the approximately 2,300 people who attended the coronation at Westminster Abbey. Among them are US first lady Jill Biden, Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska and former prime ministers Boris Johnson, Theresa May and Tony Blair. The current Prime Minister of England, Rishi Sunak, read the first chapter of the Epistle to the Colossians.
Singers Lionel Richie and Katy Perry, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, actors Judi Dench and Emma Thompson were all present. The guest list speaks to Charles’s attempt to embrace a modern, multicultural Britain, but also speaks to the dynastic identity of the monarchy.
