The Countess of Wessex stood separately from Queen Consort Camilla and the Princess of Wales on Remembrance Sunday so nobody appeared to replace the late Queen, it has been reported.
Camilla and Kate stood shoulder to shoulder together on the main balcony of the Foreign Office overlooking the Cenotaph in London, where King Charles led the nation in honouring the war dead for the first time as monarch.
There was a poignant empty space, where the late Queen had stood in the middle of the two women to watch the emotional service in previous years when Charles, then Prince of Wales, would lay a wreath on her behalf.
