Meghan Markle to follow behind senior royals at Queen’s funeral with 'peacemaker'

Meghan Markle will be accompanied by Sophie Wessex as she will follow behind senior royals in a car at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.

According to reports, King Charles III will lead the procession on Monday while other royal family members, including Kate Middleton and Prince William, will follow him.

This came after the Duchess of Sussex and Sophie were seen together behind the Brittan’s longest-serving monarch’s coffin at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.

Rebecca English shared: “Meghan, 41, looked decidedly self-conscious from my vantage point, just above her in the 900-year-old building, the oldest on the parliamentary estate.”

“Shoulders back, clutching her programme and bag, she was the most stylish and striking of them all. She wore a pair of pearl earrings given to her by the Queen as a wedding present,” the writer continued.

Rebecca detailed how Sophie appeared to be a ‘peacemaker’ on the occasion. 

“But there was something self-consciously awkward about her posture, demonstrating the depth of the rift between herself and the rest of the royal family even if you happened upon them without any prior knowledge of the acrimony of the past four years.

“Meghan, who had travelled in a car with Sophie from Buckingham Palace earlier - while the Queen Consort and Kate, as the two most senior women now in the royal family, went ahead together - a reason to move slightly closer to her husband's aunt,” the writer added.