EUROPEAN ROYALS TURN OUT TO PAY TRIBUTE
QUEEN TAKES LEAD AS KING AND PRINCE OF WALES MISS MEMORIAL SERVICE
The Queen stepped in to lead members of the royal family last week as they gathered for a memorial service for ex-King Constantine II of Greece.
The thanksgiving service was held at St George’s Chapel in Windsor and saw an impressive turnout of British royals and their Greek relatives as well as European royalty and nobility to celebrate the former monarch’s life.
The Prince of Wales had been due to give a reading in memory of his godfather, but pulled out at the last minute “due to a personal matter” and phoned the Greek royal family to apologise.
Kensington Palace declined to elaborate but said that his wife the Princess, who is recovering from abdominal surgery, “continues to be doing well”.
With the King continuing to receive treatment for cancer and Prince William out of action, it fell to the Queen, in a pinstriped suit and large hat, to take the reins. The Princess Royal and her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, were also there, along with the Duke of York, Sarah, Duchess of York and their daughter Princess Beatrice, who was accompanied by her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
