King arrives but ill Queen Camilla misses Duchess of Kent’s funeral

King Charles and other senior royalities came to the funeral of Katharine, the Duchess of City in the Westminster Cathedral.

However, Queen Camilla sent “deep regrets” because she had to miss the service because she was still getting rid of acute sinusitis.

The prince and princess who pays hot tribute to music -loving Duchess are among the mourning in Requiem Mass as well as the Duke of Kent and three children.

This is the first Catholic funeral for a member of the royal family in modern times, and a message will be read from Pope Leo during the service.

Queen’s health problem was announced by the palace in front of the funeral.

“His thoughts and prayers will be with the Duke of Kent and the whole family,” he said in a statement from Buckingham Palace.

However, despite this painful inflammation of the sinuses, the palace said that the queen is still planning to participate in the state visit of President Trump, who will still be in Windsor on Windsor.

Duchess’s family and friends came for the funeral, and the Byzantine style church in Westminster gathered outside the church.

Princess Anne and her husband Sir Tim Laurence and Prince Andrew were among the royalities with their ex -wife Sarah Ferguson.

Duchessin coffin Brought to the cathedral on MondayIn the royal standard and with white roses between the flowers, in honor of Duchess’s Yorkshire roots.

Duchess was the oldest member of the royal family when he died at the age of 92 at the beginning of this month. He married the first cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth.

He had many memories of his kindness and his devotion to charities.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who will chair the funeral service, said how the Passage aid organization was volunteer for the homeless people who were next to the cathedral of Duchess.

He remembered in front of the funeral, helping him in the kitchen and cleaning alms as “very down the earth”.

“In addition to unifying royal tasks, he entered the heart of serving people,” Cardinal Nichols said, ” He said.

This is a historical moment in terms of the royal Catholic funeral, but the cardinal said that it should be seen as a “family funeral where family members gathered around”.

“One of the oldest members died. He’s in the family and as we can see, a woman who is very popular to most of the people,” Cardinal Nichols said.

The Duchess had a deep love of music and worked as a primary school music teacher, called him a female city, the students did not know anything about the royal life.

The music at the Funeral will include Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus, who was chosen as his favorite piece by Duchess when he was a guest on the BBC’s Desert Island disks.

A Piper will play Sleep, Dearie, Sleep, which was played at the Late Queen’s funeral, three years ago.

It will also be from Requiem by JS Bach by music and French composer Maurice Durufle.

The Duchess will also be remembered as a familiar figure at Wimbledon tennis championships, where he delivered the cups – and in 1993, he comforted the losers, including tear Jan Novotna.

After the funeral at the Westminster Cathedral, the coffin will be taken to the royal grave Ground in Frogmore in Windsor land.