Buckingham Palace has announced the list of people who will attend Prince Philip’s funeral in a Windsor Castle chapel on Saturday.
With just 30 participants – a list kept socially distant by British rules – it will be a very intimate and very royal affair.
Here’s an outline of who’s going:
QUEEN ELIZABETH
Philip’s widow of over 70 years, Queen Elizabeth, will of course attend.
She had a firm hand in planning the funeral, and even forbade attendees to wear military uniforms to save her son Prince Andrew and grandson Prince Harry from the embarrassment of being conspicuous, as both were forced out of the royal service to enter.
PRINCE CHARLES AND FAMILY
Elizabeth and Philip’s eldest heir to the throne, Prince Charles – who was taken down close to tears on Thursday when he saw the flower tribute to his ‘Dad’, will attend it with his wife, Camilla.
Charles’ two sons with Princess Diana – the heir to the throne Prince William and Prince Harry, who landed on Sunday – will also attend.
William will have his wife, Kate Middleton, by his side, but Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, is seven months pregnant with their second child and lives at home in Los Angeles.
The brothers will not walk side by side during the funeral, a decision that, according to Buckingham Palace, has nothing to do with them and their wives’ split over Megxit.
PRINCESS ANNE AND FAMILY
Elizabeth and Philip’s second eldest child, Princess Anne, will attend with her retired husband of the Royal Navy officer, Sir Timothy Laurence.
Anne 70, recently praised her father’s ‘legacy that inspires us all’.
Anne and Timothy’s two children will attend as well. They are Peter Phillips, 43, the eldest granddaughter of the queen, who will be attending alone, and Zara. 39 – the queen’s eldest granddaughter – who goes with her husband Mike Tindall.
PRINCE ANDREW AND FAMILY
Next among the children of the Queen and Philip is the scandalous Prince Andrew, 61, who will attend without a plus-one and without a uniform, though he hoped to wear one before his mother’s non-uniform edict.
He withdrew from the high-ranking Royal Navy because of his friendship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Both his daughters along with his ex, Sarah Ferguson, will attend. Princess Beatrice, 32, will be there with her one-year-old husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Princess Eugenie, 31, is dating her three-year-old husband, Jack Brooksbank, who named their son Philip in February.
PRINCE EDWARD AND FAMILY
Eventually, Elizabeth and Philip’s fourth and youngest child, Prince Edward, will attend with his wife, Sophie, and their two children, Louise (17) and James (13).
Sophie was especially moved when she visited her mother-in-law the day after Philip’s death and then tearfully told reporters, “The queen was amazing.”
Who will take the remaining ten seats?
THE EXTENDED ROYAL FAMILY
The Queen’s sister Margaret’s son, David Linley, second Earl of Snowdon (59) – a favorite cousin of the Queen, gets one of the remaining seats.
So too a favorite cousin, Lady Sarah Chatto (54), who is the daughter of Margaret. She will attend it with her husband, Daniel.
Further on the list are three of the cousins of the Queen, Prince Richard, Prince Edward, Princess Alexandra.
Three of Philip’s German family members – Prince Bernhard, Prince Donatus and Prince Philipp – are rounded off by the list.
Eventually a good friend of Philip’s, Penelope Eastwood, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, will attend.