All eight will be standing tonight, with their backs to the coffin, to care for their late grandmother. Queen Elizabeth’s eight grandchildren, William, Harry, Peter, Zara, Beatrice, Eugenie, Louise and James, will watch over their grandmother’s coffin for 15 minutes, as did King Charles, Anna, Andrew and Edward the day before. .
If the public knows William, now Prince of Wales, and his brother Harry, they know their cousins a little less. An often absent and sometimes distant mother, Queen Elizabeth was, according to the testimonies of her grandchildren, an attentive grandmother.
•Peter Phillips
Peter Phillips, his cousin, is the Queen’s first grandson. He is the son of Anne, the younger sister of Charles and Mark Phillips, a former jockey. He was born in 1977, long before the Crown Law abolished the prevalence of male heirs, and is therefore 17th in the order of succession to the British throne.
Peter Phillips, married and divorced from a Canadian named Autum Kelly, is the father of Savannah and Isla. He mostly made headlines in the British press for using his royal status to advertise in China. Not teeming with principles, Peter Phillips doesn’t hesitate to market his membership in the royal family. For example, he sold to People magazine Hello!, the wedding photos of him at Windsor Castle.
• Zara Tindall
Like her brother Peter, Zara Tindall, born in 1981, does not have a noble title. A jockey emeritus, like her father, she won a silver medal at the London Olympics in 2012, as well as several world and European championship medals. She is married to former rugby player Mike Tindall, with whom she has three children, Mia, Lena and Lucas.
• Beatrice of York
Ninth in line to the throne, Beatrice is the eldest daughter of Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. Unlike her cousins Zara and Peter, she is a princess. She was born in 1988. She had to marry with the greatest discretion in 2020, between the Covid epidemic and the sexual scandal of her father, Prince Andrew.
On this occasion, she wore a dress that belonged to the queen. Beatrice is the mother of a girl named Sienna.
• Eugenie of York
Beatrice’s younger sister was born in 1990. She is ninth in line to the throne. She married her longtime partner, Jack Brooksbank, in 2018. Together they have a son named August, born in 2021.
Like her sister, Eugenie regularly participated in official engagements with her grandmother. If the queen’s relationship with the mother of princesses, Sarah Ferguson, has not always been good, the monarch seemed quite attached to her two granddaughters.
• Mrs. Louise
Born in 2003, Lady Louise, fille d’Edward, le plus jeune fils de la reine et de Sophie Rhys-Jones, Comtesse de Wessex, était paraît-il la petite-fille préférée de la reine, dont était selon les médias britanniques “very close”.
He went on long horseback rides with Elizabeth II. If she does not have the title of princess, by decision of her parents, Lady Louise is fifteenth in the order of succession to the throne.
• James Viscount Severn
James, the queen’s youngest grandson, precedes his older sister Louise in the line of succession to the throne. He was born in 2007. He has the title of viscount and not prince. We have rarely seen him in public.
Source: BFM TV
