Queen will wear a brooch she wore on her honeymoon in a touching tribute to the sick Philip

The Queen will wear the same brooch she wore on her honeymoon, in a poignant tribute to Prince Philip as she addresses the country for Commonwealth Day.

The monarch should praise the global response to coronavirus tonight, hours before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Oprah Winfrey interview airs in the US.

As Philip remains in hospital after a heart operation, the Queen – backed by five senior royals – will pay tribute to the way communities and countries are united to support each other in a BBC program shown at 5pm.

Some interpreted it as an example of the solidarity of senior royals who took part – including Charles and Camilla, William and Kate, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex.

Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah will be broadcast in the USA tonight and ITV will broadcast it for British audiences on Monday at 21:00.

According to reports, it appears that the queen was mainly focused on her husband, whom she married in November 1947.

In a moving tribute to him, she will once again wear the chrysanthemum brooch, made with sapphires and diamonds in platinum – which she wore during her honeymoon with Philip in Broadlands, Hampshire, reports The Express.

She also wore the accessory to celebrate her and Philip’s 60th and 73rd wedding anniversary.

The Queen’s speech tonight will feature footage of her walking through an avenue of Commonwealth flags at St George’s Hall in Windsor Castle last week, where Harry and Meghan’s wedding reception was held.

Dressed in a delphinium blue dress and jacket, she wears her sapphire chrysanthemum brooch in a poignant gesture to Prince Philip, who is still in hospital and recovering from heart surgery. She wore it on their honeymoon photos and again for their anniversary portrait of November last year.

Prince Charles, who delivered a speech at Westminster Abbey, will also thank the ‘extraordinary determination, courage and creativity’ of people for ‘sad suffering’, while the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge praised health workers from around the world. .

While the Royals’ appearance on the BBC program, which airs today at 5pm, was planned some time ago, its timing is undeniably uncomfortable a few hours before Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey in North America.

The family’s broadcast was proposed by the Royal Commonwealth Society and Westminster Abbey in early January because they acknowledged that this year’s Commonwealth Day Service would be canceled due to closure.

The queen agrees to tell her annual Commonwealth message, which is usually printed in the service program.

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, who spoke to Clare Balding about children’s literacy, were filmed at Westminster Abbey, while the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, were filmed on video with medical and charitable staff from South Africa. , Bangladesh, Malaysia, Australia and Malawi. Harry and Meghan, who have returned their roles as ambassadors of the Commonwealth, are not getting there.

In an excerpt from the program, A Celebration for Commonwealth Day, Kate and William chat in a video call with Dr Zolelwa Sifumba, a lawyer for the rights of health workers in South Africa.

The Duchess tells the doctor: ‘In the UK, there has been a lot of public recognition for the amazing work that the front line is doing, and it’s almost sad that it needs the pandemic to those working on the front line. The Duke of Cambridge also made weekly phone calls to NHS staff up and down the country to thank them for their work.

It was at the Commonwealth Day service last year when the Sussexes were last seen with their family.