The place have been the Waleses?
Within the down-to-the-minute choreography of Saturday’s coronation, William and Catherine, the Prince and Princess of Wales, had been anticipated to reach exterior Westminster Abbey at roughly 10:45 a.m. They’d be among the many final visitors to enter the church earlier than the celebs of the present, King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
As an alternative, Charles and Camilla pulled as much as the abbey within the Diamond Jubilee State Coach after which, quite awkwardly, didn’t alight. As an alternative, the royal couple stayed put for about 5 minutes, as cameras caught an aide conferring with a perplexed-looking Charles in regards to the obvious delay.
Have been William and Kate working late? Or was it that the king’s coach had arrived early? Not one of the a whole lot of journalists loitering by the printed cubicles exterior Buckingham Palace appeared to know for positive. However for awhile, it appeared the Waleses have been AWOL.
“We frankly anticipated to see them earlier than this second,” Savannah Guthrie of NBC instructed her “At this time” present viewers. “So we’ll see how all this unfolds.”
Ultimately, a automobile zipped up and deposited William and Catherine and their kids — George, Charlotte and Louis — on the abbey.
There was no instant remark from the related events, and so the reporters have been left to invest. Some TV commentators stated they acknowledged in William and Catherine the harried faces of oldsters who had simply been corralling a brood. Others raised the prospect of a site visitors jam, though the encircling streets had been cleared of automobiles.
Hours later, it remained unclear if the Waleses had technically been delayed in any respect. But it surely wouldn’t be a royal event with out some gossip.