KitLily wrote:
That poor William and Harry being made to walk behind their Mummy's coffin when she died in 1997. That was barbaric..
Apparently they are carrying on a tradition their grandfather Phillip did as a boy
The photo is of Phillip walking behind the casket his sister Cecile at her funeral in Nazi Germany in 1937. Cecile died in a plane crash along with her Nazi husband.
This would have been extremely awkward for Phillip who was actually quite patriotic to Britain and would subsequently serve with some honour in the British Royal navy against the Nazis. For all his buffoonery in old age, the young Phillip was quite brave to walk into the mouth of the beast to honour his dead sister.