Royal expert Richard Kay
claimed the seating arrangement at St Paul’s Cathedral for the service of
thanksgiving on Friday was the “public reality of Harry’s slide down the
royal pecking order”.
Mr. Kay said the Duke and Duchess
of Sussex “shuffled instead into a second row with the also-rans of
the Royal Family” and waited as the “real stars of the show
arrived” with Prince Charles, Camilla, William and Kate
taking part in a procession to their front-row seats.
Writing in the Daily Mail, the
royal expert said: “Nothing illustrated how the Sussexes’ exile in
California has upended their old world than the manner – and timing – of their
arrival at St Paul’s.
“As non-working royals,
they are now very much in the second division. And although spared the
indignity of sharing the coach that brought a clutch of minor royals who
similarly do not do official duties, such as Princess Michael of Kent’s son
Lord Frederick Windsor, they were only just behind them.”
Mr. Kay added: “It was a
painful 19 minutes before William and Kate arrived to take their seats.
“If the reality of his new
life had escaped Prince Harry thus far, it must surely have sunk in then.”
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