The curtain falls with all the solemnity of the case, but also with a first clear relegation to the real label, on the official commitments of Harry and Meghan in the Windsor house. The farewell was marked by the last one
public appearance of the Dukes of Sussex as 'senior members' of the Royal Family, alongside the queen and the rest of the dynasty, on the occasion of the Commonwealth celebration day.
An appointment sealed by the religious ritual of the Commonwealth Service, in the majestic setting of Westminster Abbey, held in great pomp in spite of an emergency, the coronavirus, which for now the conservative overseas executive hesitates to face with truly public measures restrictive. And yet a correct appointment if only in extremis from the streamlining of the royal entrance procession, of which the Sussex people have paid the first with an exclusion announced in the morning, followed closely by the Dukes of Cambridge, Prince William, brother greater
of Harry, and his wife Kate.
It is not known what motivated the double decision. The exclusion of Cambridge also in extremis has not been explained by Buckingham Palace or by Kensington Palace. It is not known to have stemmed from the desire not to make Harry and Meghan appear isolated, from some recrimination of the Sussex staff, from new etiquette rules or anything else.