Buckingham Palace Announces Guest List for Duke of Edinburgh’s Funeral

The world mourns the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away at the age of 99 last Friday.

The funeral service is set to take place on Saturday, April 17th, at 3 pm at St George's Chapel in Windsor, west of London.

Buckingham Palace has released the official guest list of 30 people who will attend the service.

Due to the pandemic, the memorial service has been significantly reduced, and only close family and friends of the beloved patriarch will be present.

According to a Buckingham Palace spokesman, the Queen had to make some difficult decisions about who could be there, keeping with the 30-person limit.

The spokesman said, “At its heart, it is still a family event.

We are following the Covid guidelines.

There will be a limit on who could be invited as a guest.

And Her Majesty wanted to ensure that all branches of the Duke's family were there and had to make some very difficult decisions about who would be there.”

The 94-year-old monarch will be joined at the funeral by her and Prince Philip's four children, Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward, along with their children-in-law.

Charles's wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Anne's husband Timothy Lawrence, and Edward's wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, will also attend.

The late Duke of Edinburgh's eight grandchildren, including Peter Phillips, Zara Tindall, Prince William, Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, Lady Louise, and James, Vice Count Seven, will also be present.

Princess William's wife Catherine, Zara Tindall's husband Mike Tindall, Princess Eugenie's husband Jack Brooksbank, and Princess Beatrice's husband Edoardo Mapelli-Mosi will join their spouses.

The Queen's first cousins, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent, and Princess Alexander, will also be at the service.

The late Princess Margaret's daughter and son-in-law, Lady Sarah Chateau and Daniel Chateau, will attend along with her brother, the Earl of Snowdon.

Prince Philip will also have some of his German relatives in attendance, two great-nephews, and a cousin, Prince Bernard, hereditary Prince of Baden, Prince Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse, and Prince Philip of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

Penelope Natchball, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, the late Duke's carriage-driving partner, and one of his closest friends, will also attend.

All funeral attendees, including Her Majesty, will wear masks inside St George's Chapel.

Those taking part in the funeral procession will not wear masks until the end of the chapel.

Brothers Prince William and Prince Harry will both join family members in walking behind their grandfather's coffin, but their cousin, Peter Phillips, the son of Anne, is set to walk between them.

For the second procession into the chapel, Prince William will walk with Peter, and between them will be Prince Harry and David Armstrong Jones, the son of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong Jones.

Despite the scaled-down ceremony, those close to Prince Philip say it's what he would have wanted.

Former Palace spokeswoman, Alicia Anderson, tells People in this week's issue, “No fuss, no bother.

Right through his life, he never knew what all the fuss was about.”

For those who cannot attend the funeral, they will be making their private arrangements to commemorate and celebrate the Duke.