About 800 mourners would have attended Prince Philip's funeral in normal times, but the Queen was forced to whittle the guest list down to 30.
Buckingham Palace said the 94-year-old monarch faced “some very difficult” decisions as she selected the guests permitted under England's coronavirus lockdown rules.
She had tried to ensure all branches of the duke’s family were there, including three German relatives and a confidante who is linked to the Duke of Edinburgh's beloved uncle who was murdered by the IRA more than 40 years ago.
It was inevitable that there would be some notable omissions when the full guest list was revealed on Thursday, with Prince Andrew's ex-wife and Philip's former daughter-in-law Sarah Ferguson, one of the Queen's