Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie had Twitter in a tizzy when they both vacated their seats at Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral at Westminster Abbey at the same time. The two sisters left before their grandmother’s coffin was carried down the aisle, per Hello!, and they were not seated together — Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, were on one side of the aisle, while Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, were on the other. When the princesses left, their husbands did not join them.
“Did you notice before end of service mass that Eugenie & Beatrice stepped away from their seats and did not walk out at the end with their respective husbands?” tweeted one observer. Others suggested that the sisters’ mother, Sarah Ferguson, looked like she wanted to join them, but didn’t. “Looked unscheduled. Beatrice, then Eugenie and nearly Fergie but she was told to stay out,” another tweet read. While there were jokes aplenty that they possibly needed to use the ladies’ room, there was video evidence to support a different explanation.
“They seemed to be waiting at the Abbey entrance and curtsied when the coffin went past,” one person tweeted. The two siblings can be seen doing exactly this in footage of the service, seemingly sending their grandmother off on the last leg of her final journey to Windsor with a demonstration of their deep-felt love and respect for her.
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