Prince Harry apparently landed in the UK before Philip’s funeral

Prince Harry apparently landed in the UK before Philip’s funeral

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The Duke of Sussex is said to have been spotted at Heathrow Airport in London at 13:15 from a British Airways flight from Los Angeles, the Sun newspaper reported calling an eyewitness.

Official sources declined to comment on Harry’s travel motions, but a Buckingham Palace spokesman said at the weekend that the prince was planning to attend his grandfather’s funeral in Windsor on Saturday.

The trip is the first time Harry has returned to the UK since he and his wife Meghan resigned as senior royals last March.

Harry will likely want to comply with existing coronavirus travel regulations for international travelers to the UK and ensure a period of quarantine before attending the funeral.

According to these rules, travelers must complete a passenger tracking form and provide proof of a negative coronavirus test before leaving for the United Kingdom.

Once in England, visitors must be quarantined for ten days or at a managed quarantine hotel. During the mandatory quarantine, two additional Covid-19 tests are required on days two and eight.

Harry could use the British government’s ‘test to release’ system to end his quarantine prematurely. This allows someone to take a private Covid-19 test on the fifth day after arrival to free them from self-isolation if their test result is negative. They have to sit in quarantine while they wait for their test result.

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There are also clues for mourners entering the country, enabling them to leave self-isolation in ‘limited circumstances’ on compassionate grounds that include ‘attending a funeral of a family member, a close relative or’ a friend ‘. The individual must self-isolate himself at all times.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will not be joining her husband for the funeral. She is expecting the couple’s second baby this summer and ‘was advised by her doctor not to travel to the UK’ from California where they live, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said on Saturday.

The Queen has approved a ceremony tailored to the plan the Duke of Edinburgh agreed to years ago to respect pandemic restrictions.

Prince Philip will be laid to rest in a private funeral at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor, known as a ‘ceremonial royal funeral’, and will not lie in the state, according to the arrangements the palace set out to the press. .

According to royal protocol, state funerals are usually reserved for princes, so the duke’s funeral is similar to that of the queen mother in 2002, the spokesman explained.

The revised arrangements were made in ‘close consultation’ with government and public health officials to comply with social distance guidelines that limit funerals to 30 people.

CNN’s James Frater and Lindsay Issac contributed to this report.

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