Veteran BBC commentator David Dimbleby remarked that they looked like ordinary members of the public.
Cousins, nieces, great-nephews, and grandsons-in-law: the extended Royal Family were all out for today’s Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s cathedral.
They arrived in more plebeian transportation than the previous day’s horse-drawn carriages – bussed in by coach, albeit one with blacked-out windows. But when they descended from their vehicle, the sea of padded headbands and fascinators gave them away.