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Plans show that Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis are all set to join their grandfather and the Queen as they leave the abbey at the end of the ceremony on May 6.
The procession back to Buckingham Palace is likely to be about a third of the size it was for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953.
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The rehearsal plans show that, as expected, neither*Harry and Meghan*nor the Duke of York will take part in the procession, which is confined to working members of the royal family. Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will not be in the procession either.
Apart from the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children, the only other royals in the procession out of the abbey will be the Princess Royal and her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the new Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Kent and his sister Princess Alexandra.
The rehearsal plans show where the regalia will be carried in the procession into the abbey, including the St Edward’s Crown, the orb, the sceptre with cross, St Edward’s Staff and the Swords of Mercy, Spiritual Justice and Temporal Justice. It has not yet been revealed who will carry them.
While Buckingham Palace has been emphatic that the carriage procession afterwards will be “amazing in both scale and splendour”, it will be significantly smaller — and cover a shorter route — than the procession after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation.
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