Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she watches from the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Color ceremony in London, Thursday, June 2, 2022, on the first of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. The events over a long holiday weekend in the U.K. are meant to celebrate the monarch’s 70 years of service. (Jonathan Brady/Pool Photo via AP) 
King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward stood a symbolic watch at their mother’s coffin at St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh
Queen Elizabeth’s four children carried out a solemn tradition.
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On Monday evening, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward came together to conduct the Vigil of the Princes as their mother’s coffin laid in state at St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. The siblings stepped out beside their mother’s casket, draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland and topped with a floral wreath and the Crown of Scotland.
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For about 10 minutes, the royals joined the Royal Company of Archers, who will guard the Queen’s casket around the clock during its time in St. Giles, for a symbolic stand of guard as members of the public paid their respects. King Charles, sporting a Scottish kilt, took a spot of significance at the head of the coffin.
Charles’ wife Queen Camilla and Edward’s wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex sat nearby during the vigil.
The rare ritual has been performed only twice before in British history, first for the funerary processions for the Queen’s grandfather, King George V, in 1936, and again during the Queen Mother’s funeral events in 2002, according to The Independent.
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