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Prince Harry was certain that Meghan Markle would support him as much as she did during Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.
Speaking with PEOPLE after the emotional ceremonies, funeral attendee and attorney Pranav Bhanot described some of the interactions he witnessed between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during the Westminster Abbey royal burial.
“You witnessed the confidence that Harry was offering to Meghan at moments when they were strolling together and had to go in different directions,” Bhanot told PEOPLE.”I observed how supportive Harry was of Meghan,” he said. “He squeezed her hand as they decided to part ways after the wedding. He seemed to try to make her feel at ease.”
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Later in the day, the pair sat close to Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their two elder children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, for the late monarch’s committal service.
The event was held on Monday in St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were married in May 2018. Meghan, 41, Harry, 38, Kate, 40, William, 40, George, 9, and Charlotte, 7, sat in the front row of seats on one side of the Queen’s coffin. Following the procession entering the chapel behind the Queen’s coffin, Kate and Prince William moved to the side to allow Meghan and Prince Harry to join the pew first.
As the next two in line for the throne, Prince William and Prince George sat close to each other at the altar.On the other side, in the front row, sat Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and their children, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were already in Europe for a series of charity engagements without their children — son Archie Harrison and daughter Lilibet “Lili” Diana — when the late monarch died “peacefully” at her beloved Scottish estate, Balmoral Castle, on Sept. 8.
The pair stayed in the United Kingdom to attend the funeral on Monday, as well as several festivities leading up to the ceremony.The Queen was buried at St. George’s Chapel, which was begun in 1475 by King Edward IV and completed more than 50 years later by King Henry VIII.
Her parents, King George VI, who died in 1952, and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who died in 2002, are also buried at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, as is her sister, Princess Margaret, who died in 2002.
