Megxit stage left: Harry and Meghan return to Frogmore Cottage while other royals mingle with St Paul's guests at reception after William and Kate kept their distance at cautiously stage-managed service.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle lower back to their Windsor home of Frogmore Cottage this afternoon, leaving the relaxation of the Royal Family to attend a reception barring them following the Service of Thanksgiving for the Queen.
The Duke of Sussex was considered smiling next to his wife while being pushed in a Range Rover with every other automobile carrying protection personnel behind, after what was the couple's first joint royal engagement in two years.
They had been at St Paul's Cathedral for the service, but have been kept apart from Prince William, Kate, Prince Charles and Camilla after royal aides ensured they sat on the other facet of the aisle - and they later left separately.
The Sussexes did no longer attend a reception straight after at the nearby Guildhall which featured a sequence of different Royal Family individuals and politicians which include Prime Minster Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel.
Buckingham Palace officials took exceptional care to try to keep away from a repeat of the frosty scenes when the Sussexes and Cambridges sat near every different and left together at their final joint match in March 2020 at Westminster Abbey.
And aides would have been delighted that cutting-edge service in the front of 2,000 guests surpassed without any such incident or poor 'optics' given the attempts to make sure today was once about the Queen and her 70-year reign.
Kate and William chatted to Prince Charles and Camilla inside the cathedral, however there was once no sign of the equal rapport with Harry and Meghan who sat in between Lady Sarah Chatto and Princess Eugenie's husband Jack Brooksbank, and have been under strict directions to maintain a low profile in the course of the event.
Harry and William have had a long-standing feud, whilst Harry has accused his father Charles of cutting him off financially and Meghan claimed an unnamed royal made a remark about Archie's skin tone before he was once born – with the Sussexes having a struggle of phrases with the Palace following last year's bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview.
It was the first time Harry and Meghan, who now live in California, had been on full public view alongside the Windsors due to the fact that they stop the monarchy for a new existence in the US two years ago. Crowds cheered the pair as they arrived, with the couple smiling and waving, but each boos and cheers ought to be heard as they departed.
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