Prince Harry and William will walk together behind Prince Philip’s coffin

At their grandfather’s funeral on Saturday, Princes William and Harry will reunite as they walk behind his coffin.

The brothers are due to walk shoulder to shoulder in the royal procession at the Duke of Edinburgh’s memorial service in Windsor on Saturday.

Other senior royals are expected to join the brief procession from Windsor Castle’s state entrance to the chapel, but the Queen will not walk behind her husband’s coffin, according to reports.

“Harry has been in touch with his father, and his brother, and his grandmother,” a source told Vanity Fair, adding that “he was told about his grandfather’s death at the same time as the rest of the family and he is grieving just like the rest of them.” In the funeral procession from Windsor Castle to St. George’s Chapel, the Duke of Sussex will accompany William.

Prince Philip’s coffin will be transferred from the private chapel to the State Entrance of Windsor Castle on the day of his funeral. It will be taken the short distance to St George’s Chapel on a modified Land Rover that the duke himself helped build.

Pallbearers from the Royal Marines and other regiments and corps affiliated with the Duke will be flanking the Land Rover. The Prince of Wales and other members of the Royal Family will move behind the coffin. The Queen will move to the chapel separately for the ceremony.

The Grenadier Guards’ band will lead the march from the Quadrangle to Chapel Hill and down to Horseshoe Cloister.

Personnel from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Highlanders, 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, and Royal Air Force will line the path.

The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery will shoot guns from the East Lawn during the ceremony, while a bell in the Curfew Tower, at the castle’s west end, tolls.

Harry and William, who have rarely talked in over a year, will lay their disagreements aside to honor their adored grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh.

The Duke, who died peacefully at Windsor Castle on Friday with the Queen by his side, was reported to be “dismayed” by his grandsons’ relationship’s breakdown.

He “urged them both to put to rest their differences, and not only remember their bond but also be mindful of their duty to the Queen and the country,” according to royal sources.

Royal observers suggested today that Harry’s presence may be his opportunity to undo the ‘deep damage’ incurred by his and Meghan’s appearance on Oprah, as he talked to senior members of the Royal Family ahead of his return to Britain.

Though tensions have been ‘high’ after the backlash from the Oprah interview on March 7, a source told the Mail on Sunday that the Royal Family is ‘united in grief’ following Prince Philip’s death.

No state funeral

Under the code name Operation Forth Bridge, the preparations for the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral have been carefully planned over several years.

There will be no state funeral or public lying in state at Prince Philip’s request, but only a much more low-key affair recognized formally as a royal ceremonial funeral.

The public elements of the Queen’s consort’s final farewell will not be able to take place in their original form due to limitations imposed during the Covid-19 epidemic.

According to one author, organizers are “desperately anxious” not to stage something that draws large crowds.