Countess Mountbatten of Burma, one of the Duke of Edinburgh’s closest confidantes, will attend Philip’s funeral.
There were “some extremely difficult decisions” that the Queen had to make in her selection of the 30 guests permitted by Covid-19 restrictions, from an original 800-strong assembly, Buckingham Palace claimed.
At the service in St. George’s Chapel on Saturday, 67-year-old countess Penny Knatchbull, previously known as Lady Romsey and then Lady Brabourne, will be a part of the monarch, the Queen, Philip’s four children and eight grandchildren, and their respective husbands.
As a result of the postwar anti-German sentiment, three German relatives who had been denied a place at Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s wedding have been invited to attend the wedding instead
How many royals attended Prince Philip’s funeral?
About 30 Royals were present at Prince Philips’s funeral.
Full list of royals who attended Prince Philip’s funeral
1. The Queen
2. The Prince of Wales
3. The Duchess of Cornwall
4. The Duke of Cambridge
5. The Duchess of Cambridge
6. The Duke of Sussex
7. The Duke of York
8. Princess Beatrice
9. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
10. Princess Eugenie
11. Jack Brooksbank
12. The Earl of Wessex
13. The Countess of Wessex
14. Lady Louise Windsor
15. Viscount Severn
16. The Princess Royal
17. Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence
18. Peter Phillips
19. Zara Phillips
20. Mike Tindall
21. Earl of Snowdon
22. Lady Sarah Chatto
23. Daniel Chatto
24. Duke of Gloucester
25. Duke of Kent
26. Princess Alexandra
27. Bernhard, Hereditary Prince of Baden
28. Prince Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse
29. Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
30. The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
