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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Welbert Bauyaban

Expert Reveals Prince William's 'Rapid Blinking' Signal at Philip's Funeral — What Does That Mean?

Prince William at Prince Philip’s funeral at Windsor, where a body language expert highlighted a brief moment of ‘rapid and frequent blinking.’ ​ (Credit: © European Union, 1998 – 2026, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons)

The camera, as ever, was cruelly intimate at Prince Philip's funeral, with tight shots, long silences and a nation straining to read meaning into the smallest muscle twitch. Prince William mostly gave what the monarchy trains its members to give — stillness and the carefully blank face of a man performing grief on behalf of an institution.

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