The place have been the Waleses?
Within the down-to-the-minute choreography of Saturday’s coronation, William and Catherine, the Prince and Princess of Wales, had been anticipated to reach exterior Westminster Abbey at roughly 10:45 a.m. They might be among the many final visitors to enter the church earlier than the celebs of the present, King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
As an alternative, Charles and Camilla pulled as much as the abbey within the Diamond Jubilee State Coach after which, quite awkwardly, didn’t alight. As an alternative, the royal couple stayed put for about 5 minutes, as cameras caught an aide conferring with a perplexed-looking Charles concerning the obvious delay.
Have been William and Kate working late? Or was it that the king’s coach had arrived early? Not one of the tons of of journalists loitering by the published cubicles exterior Buckingham Palace appeared to know for positive. However for some time, it appeared the Waleses have been AWOL.
“We frankly anticipated to see them earlier than this second,” Savannah Guthrie of NBC advised her “As we speak” present viewers, though William and Catherine have been all the time scheduled to be among the many newest arrivals. “So we’ll see how all this unfolds.”
Ultimately, a automobile zipped up and deposited William and Catherine and their kids — George, Charlotte and Louis — on the abbey.
There was no instant remark from the related events, and so the reporters have been left to invest. Some TV commentators stated they acknowledged in William and Catherine the harried faces of fogeys who had simply been corralling a brood. Others raised the prospect of a visitors jam, though the encompassing streets had been cleared of automobiles.
Hours later, it remained unclear if the Waleses had technically been delayed in any respect. Nevertheless it wouldn’t be a royal event with out some gossip.
