DukeOfAster
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The Count did not attend. She was 72 and he is 20 years older. Lets send our prayers up and lets all hope this sadness ends with the countess death.
Moonmaiden23 said:Actually the Countess would have been 71 on Sept20th...exactly three weeks...since she was born in 1941. So she was technically only 70 when she died.
And she was stricken only days after helping her husband celebrate his 90th birthday on Aug14th.
I wouldn't be surprised if Stéphanie wants to be close to her father at the moment, especially if he's frail and there are concerns about his health. The distance between Anvaing and Luxembourg is about 180 miles/290 kilometers, and it takes about 3 hours by car according to TralelMath (calculated to Tournai, the city closest to Anvaing).I do not think Guillaume and Stephanie should be separated at this time. I think she should move to Luxembourg soon. It would not be very convenient for him to move to the Lannoy castle, if he has duties at home, which he seems to have a lot of. But perhaps the two homes are not far apart. I do not know the mileage between Luxembourg City and Stephanie's home in Belgium.
I wouldn't be surprised if Stéphanie wants to be close to her father at the moment, especially if he's frail and there are concerns about his health. The distance between Anvaing and Luxembourg is about 180 miles/290 kilometers, and it takes about 3 hours by car according to TralelMath (calculated to Tournai, the city closest to Anvaing).
I don't think it would be a good idea for the comte to have to leave his home, as older people are often very attached to their homes and having to move away from a familiar place will cause unnecessary emotional stress, and that's not something he needs after the death of his wife.Perhaps he should live at Berg until the wedding, at least. He has, blessedly, other children to take care of him at home, so perhaps it will not be too important.
I am happy he could be present; how horrible it would be not physically been able to attend !Sources in the Belgian press are reporting that the Comte de Lannoy was indeed present at his wife's funeral. He was taken in his wheelchair through a side entrance of the church before the other guests arrived, perhaps to shield the frail old man from the cameras.
So that settles that.
It's possible that it's Stéphanie who needs to be with her father more than he needs her to be with him, having lost one parent and with certainty understand that she doesn't have too much time left to spend with her remaining parent would make it more important for her to spend as much time as she can in his company.