Duchess Katharine: Charles and Camilla for the funeral service

King Charles III will be at the burial of the Duchess of Kent (1933-2025) on Tuesday, September 16, in the London Westminster Cathedral. (76) and Queen Camilla (78) as well as other members of the royal family. That gave.

Duchess Katharine, the wife of Edward von Kent (89), died on September 4 at the age of 92. She was a Catholic, which is why there will be a requiemmessen for her funeral. It will be the first Catholic funeral for a member of the royal family in modern history as well as the first royal funeral service in the Westminster Cathedral since it was built in 1903 ,.

This is done at the duchess’s wish. Katharine was converted into Catholicism in 1994. According to the “Irish Times”, she was the first member of the British royal family since 1685 to join the Roman Catholic Church.

The Duchess was the oldest member of the royal family. Her coffin is initially laid out in the private chapel of the Kensington Palace. On September 15, he will be brought to the Westminster Cathedral with a corpse car, where the reception and the Vesper take place on the eve of the requiemmessen. Then he will rest in the Lady Chapel overnight, as the palace announced.

The requiemessen begins on September 16 at 2 p.m. and is led by Cardinal Vincent Nichols. The coffin is then to be brought to the Royal Burial Ground in Frogmore, Windsor. On the day of the funeral, the flags are put on half mast at all official royal residences.

Duchess Katharine became part of the royal family in 1961 when she married Edward, the Duke of Kent, a cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022). The couple has three children. The Duchess supported music and charity organizations and presented trophies at many Wimbledon tennis championships. In 1996 she withdrew from public life to teach music at primary school.