- Queen arrived at St George's Chapel alongside the Duke of Edinburgh and was dressed in a bright blue coat and hat
- Couple were joined by family members including Princess Beatrice, the Countess of Wessex and Autumn Phillips
- They were greeted by the Dean of Windsor, the Right Reverend David Connor, who led the Easter Day service
Yesterday the Countess of Wessex and Princess Beatrice were not exactly fly-away style winners with their feathered hats as they joined the Queen at Windsor for an Easter Sunday service.
Sophie, 50, wife of Prince Edward, wore a beret-style percher hat topped with large, dark plumes, while Beatrice, 26, the elder daughter of the Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson, opted for an unusual blue creation.
With them, and sporting a slightly more subtly coloured hat embellished with a large rose, was Autumn Phillips, 36, wife of the Queen’s grandson Peter Phillips.
Lady Louise Windsor, the countess’ 11-year-old daughter, made up the four royal ladies.
After arriving at the chapel, the royal couple were greeted by other members of the royal family including Princess Beatrice and Sophie, Countess of Wessex
The Queen and Prince Philip were joined by the rest of royal family as they attended a traditional Easter Sunday church service at Windsor Castle today.
Today's church service marked a busy weekend for the Queen, who attended a Maundy Day service at Sheffield Cathedral on Thursday.
The female members of the royal family including Lady Louise Windsor, the Countess of Wessex, Autumn Phillips and Princess Beatrice, all walked together and chatted as they made their way to the chapel
Resplendent in a turquoise coat by Stewart Parvin and matching hat, the monarch was all smiles as she arrived at Sheffield Cathedral for the traditional ceremony.
Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh, Her Majesty was there to present 'alms' to 89 women and 89 men.
Historically, this sum of £5.50 in the Red Purse is made up of £3 for clothing, £1.50 in lieu of provisions and £1 for the redemption of the Sovereign's gown.
Many of male members of the royal family followed behind as they walked to the chapel, including Prince Edward and his nephew Peter Phillips
Prince Andrew and Princess Anne, dressed in mint green, were followed on their way to church by Daniel Chatto, husband of Lady Sarah Armstrong- Jones, daughter of Princess Margaret
Source: the Mail
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Prince William and Kate are going to move with George, Charlotte and Louis to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor
•Three children will all be sent to the prestigious nearby £21,000-a-year Lambrook School from September
•Duke and Duchess of Cambridge want children to have a country upbringing and be closer to Kate's parents
By Mark Duell for MailOnline
Prince William and Kate will move with their three children George, Charlotte and Louis to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor and send them to the prestigious £21,000-a-year Lambrook School nearby, it was confirmed today.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are seeking a life away from the 'fishbowl' of their current official residence of Kensington Palace in London in a bid to put their children first and give the 'most normal' life possible.
The couple have been planning a move to Berkshire since last year and royal aides have now revealed their children will all go to the same school, which is about seven miles away from their new home, from September.
William and Kate, both 40, who have been based at Kensington Palace since 2017, are said to want to give the youngsters a country upbringing and want to be closer to the Duchess's parents, Michael and Carole Middleton.
A source said: 'This is very much a decision that two parents have made to give their children the 'most normal' start possible. KP can be a little bit of a fishbowl. They wanted to be able to give George, Charlotte and Louis a bit more freedom than they have living in central London. It's very much a decision that's been led by the kids.'
The couple, who will also now be closer to the Queen's private apartments at Windsor Castle, will retain the 20-room Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace as a base in the capital - and this will also be the offices for their staff.
The Cambridges also intend to also keep a third property - their current country home at Anmer Hall on the 96-year-old monarch's Sandringham estate in Norfolk, which they are expected to still visit there for retreats.
William and Kate are understood to want to be closer to the Queen, who has suffered various health issues over the past year - and this will position them in a new era where they are taking over more important royal roles.
Adelaide Cottage will be William and Kate's fourth property if including a holiday home in Scotland. William was given the Tam-Na-Ghar cottage on the Balmoral estate by his great-grandmother the Queen Mother in 2002.
Its four-bedrooms mean that for the first time since she joined the family, William and Kate's full-time nanny Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo will live elsewhere, as will other staff including the housekeeper and the chef, giving the Cambridges more privacy.
The location offers the family easy access to the private 655-acre Home Park and the historic royal estate's network of drives, gardens, farms, nearby trout stream, Frogmore House and Royal Mausoleum, and Queen Victoria's Walk flanked by cedars.
Other benefits include neighbouring Windsor Great Park, which spans more than 5,000 acres, with its Long Walk leading up to Windsor Castle, deer park and woodland trails in the Valley Gardens.
The property, previously known as Adelaide Lodge, was constructed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville using materials from John Nash's Royal Lodge built for the indulgent Prince Regent.
Its entrance bears the initials AR (Adelaide Regina) and the date of 1831.
It sits next to another property called Adelaide Lodge, which is empty and inhabitable due to problems with it not being underpinned.
The transition years between primary and secondary education.
The duke and duchess previously attended a child mental health conference to learn about issues surrounding the transition years between primary and secondary education.
William's first experience of school was Mrs Mynor's Nursery School in west London which he joined aged three.
From the age of four the duke went to Wetherby School, also in west London, before spending five years at Ludgrove School in Berkshire.
William went on to board at Eton College, as did Prince Harry, for five years and it offered him a sanctuary when his parents were in the middle of an acrimonious divorce and provided stability in the difficult years that followed his mother's death.
His housemaster Dr Andrew Gailey was an important source of support. Dr Gailey's role earned him an invite to the royal wedding in 2011 and the title of Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO), an honour in the Queen's gift.
It was Dr Gailey who was cited as influencing William's university choice, having studied at St Andrews himself.
Kate's prep school was St Andrew's School in Pangbourne, Berkshire.
She joined the public school, where fees are now up to £6,845 per term, in 1986 when her family returned to the UK after spending two-and-a-half years in Jordan where she attended a nursery school.
She stayed until she was 13 and was predominantly a day girl but in her later years also boarded for part of the week.
Both William and Kate were academic at school and went on to university, achieving a 2:1 at degree level.
George, Charlotte and Louis' grandfather the Prince of Wales went to Cheam prep school as a boarder at the age of eight. He went on to have a difficult time at secondary school as a teenager.
Charles was sent to Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland, following in the footsteps of his father the Duke of Edinburgh, but was picked on and described his days there as 'a prison sentence'.
Charles did admit, however, that the school instilled him with self-discipline and a sense of responsibility.
He spent part of the school year in 1966 as an exchange student at the Geelong Church of England Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia - the first member of the British royal family to attend an overseas Commonwealth school.
Gordonstoun is also where Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex were taught.
The Queen, however, was educated at home with Princess Margaret. After her father succeeded to the throne in 1936 and she became the heir, she was taught constitutional history and law. She also studied art and music, and is fluent in French.
Lambrook School
With 52 acres of idyllic Berkshire countryside, Lambrook School gives its pupils 'feathers to fly' and a 'delicious sense of freedom'.
Its new royal charges, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, will enjoy a nurturing education at the wholesome, co-educational independent day and boarding school for three to 13-year-olds near Ascot, just a 10-minute drive from their new home in Windsor.
The Good Schools Guide describes it as a 'classic prep school' with a 'heart of gold', and tells of how youngsters get to 'run and run' in the vast grounds with 'total freedom to explore, provided you've got your wellies on'.
Lambrook boasts of 'first-class teaching and superb facilities' which include a 25-metre swimming pool, a nine-hole golf course, an astroturf, hard courts, a squash court, cricket and other sports pitches. It has a Diamond Jubilee performing arts studio, dance studio and sports hall, and a new £6 million Queen's Building for ICT and academic learning.
The prospectus quoted one parent as saying: 'It's the most magical place for our children to spend time, and they can often be seen rosy-cheeked and perfecting handstands, throwing balls or racing to the tree stumps.'
There is school on Saturday mornings followed by an afternoon of sports fixtures for pupils in Year 5 and above which includes nine-year-old George.
Lambrook offers weekly and flexi-boarding for boys and girls aged seven onwards, with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge having the option to let George and Charlotte stay as little as one night a week on an ad-hoc basis, with the sleepovers booked online. George and Charlotte will be day pupils for now.
'Weeknights sound like a hoot; think Harry Potter evenings and lashings of hot chocolate,' Talk Education said in its review of the school.
Fridays are the most popular night for one-off boards, leaving parents free to host dinner parties and nurse hangovers, the Telegraph reported.
Fees cost £4,389 a term for Reception to Year 2 pupils such as Louis, £6,448 per term for Years 3-4 like Charlotte, and £6,999 per term for George through Years 5-8, with an additional £1,481 per term for boarding for Y3-8. It means William and Kate will be spending in excess of £50,000 a year on their children's private education.
The bill amounts to £53,508's worth of fees in 2021-2022, not factoring in any potential sibling discount if available, fee increases or the cost of uniform or trips. Boarding for the older two Cambridge children would cost an additional £8,886 a year if chosen at a later date
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prides itself on its high academic standards, with a pass rate of 100 per cent for the Common Entrance exam - taken by private school pupils as part of the selective admissions process at age 13. With 620 pupils, it is a larger than average pre-prep and prep school but billed as not as pushy as its London counterparts, with some of its intake being bussed in from west London and Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey.
Year 8 leavers join prestigious schools such as William's alma mater Eton, Wellington College, Marlborough College, where Kate went, and Charterhouse among others.
Headmaster Jonathan Perry is known for his charm, and performed a rock-and-roll dance and jumped on chairs to cheer up pupils during lockdown. His wife Jenny works with the pastoral team, with the pair praised for their focus on emotional wellbeing, perfectly in line with William and Kate's campaigning on mental health.
Mr Perry says on the school website: 'We give our pupils the 'feathers to fly' so that when they move on to the next stage of their educational journey, they will spread their wings and will take flight; leaving as confident, happy, engaging, mature, considerate and thoughtful young adults who are outward-looking global citizens.'
Lambrook's on-site orchard is home to pigs, chickens and rabbits, available to cuddle during tutor time wellbeing walks, bees with hives, and visiting lambs, and George and Charlotte will have an enrichment afternoon every Monday to complement their academic studies.
They will be able to draw from a huge range of activities for this including farming, bee-keeping, chess, mountain biking, ballet, tap, jazz, mini-masterchef, polo, podcast-making, scuba diving, skiing, as well as life-saving, survival, debating and public speaking.
Louis, who will be in reception, will enjoy 'Forest Fridays' and be 'taken on a journey of discovery in the beautiful outdoors', the school's prospectus says, mirroring the Duchess of Cambridge's philosophy of the importance of outdoor play and spending time in nature.
Talk Education said there is a 'sense of delicious freedom' while the Good Schools Guide said one mother was 'mystified by how they get pupils back for lessons, but like clockwork they tumble in, ruddy-cheeked and full of fresh air'.
And parents enjoy the benefit of not having to deal with muddy PE kits. Games clothes are handed in at the start of term and remain there to be laundered by staff, before being sent home at the end of term. Every item must be named but only sewn-on tags are permitted.
The main school building is a large white 19th-century country mansion. Lambrook was founded in 1860 and two of Queen Victoria's grandsons, Prince Christian Victor and Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, attended, with Victoria travelling from Windsor Castle to watch them in plays and at cricket matches.
Uniforms consist of blue and green tartan kilts for girls and and navy corduroy trousers for boys, plus check shirts, navy pullovers and blue and green ties.
William and Kate can also immerse themselves in the school's busy social life amid reports of plentiful Lambrook get-togethers and helpful WhatsApp groups. Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Range Rovers apparently fill the car park.
But one Mumsnet user wrote: 'I have been rather put off by the size of Lambrook, and the reputation of 'Lambrook' parents. We are not super wealthy, nor are we city people or country landholders!'
Overseas school trips include jaunts to France, Italy, Iceland and South Africa. But Year 7 students preparing to embark on a canoeing trip in Sweden must each first fundraise £500 to help an underprivileged child do the same through the Teenage Wilderness Trust. Sustainability - no doubt a hit with eco-conscious William - is also key with the children planting 400 saplings to create a new woodland
Relocating to Adelaide Cottage
means William, Kate, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis are just 10 minutes' walk south east from 'Gan Gan' the Queen at Windsor Castle. Even closer is Frogmore Cottage, which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex use when visiting the UK, although the brothers' long-running fallout makes it unlikely they will be socialising together any time soon.
The property was rebuilt more than 190 years ago as a cottage orne, or decorated cottage, for Queen Adelaide, the wife of William IV, to be used as a summer retreat. It was built in 1831 on the site of the old Head Keeper's Lodge on the North Slopes of Home Park.
According to Historic England, the public body which cares for England's historic buildings and places, Adelaide Cottage is a 'picturesque' two-storey stucco-faced dwelling with casement windows, and elaborate pierced bargeboards edging the roof.
The principal bedroom has a coved ceiling decorated with gilded dolphins and rope ornament reused from the 19th century royal yacht Royal George, and a good marble Graeco-Egyptian fireplace.
The south entrance is flanked by paired diagonally set chimneys with stepped bases, and the house has a porte-cochere, a canopied entrance to provide shelter. There is a verandah with bargeboard eaves on the east side.
Its four-bedrooms mean that for the first time since she joined the family, William and Kate's full-time nanny Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo will live elsewhere, as will other staff including the housekeeper and the chef, giving the Cambridges more privacy.
The location offers the family easy access to the private 655-acre Home Park and the historic royal estate's network of drives, gardens, farms, nearby trout stream, Frogmore House and Royal Mausoleum, and Queen Victoria's Walk flanked by cedars. Other benefits include neighbouring Windsor Great Park, which spans more than 5,000 acres, with its Long Walk leading up to Windsor Castle, deer park and woodland trails in the Valley Gardens.
The property, previously known as Adelaide Lodge, was constructed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville using materials from John Nash's Royal Lodge built for the indulgent Prince Regent.
Reverend who spent last weekend with Queen reveals details of final meeting
Monarch was full of ‘fun’ and the ‘life and soul of things’
by Matt Mathers
A clergyman who spent last weekend with the Queen has described how the monarch was full of “fun” and “the life and soul of things” just days before her death.
The Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields stayed with Her Majesty at Balmoral, where he had been invited to deliver a sermon at Braemar and Crathie Parish Church.
The Queen worshipped there while staying at the castle in Scotland, one of her favourite residences.
Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields’s comments came after the monarch died on Thursday, aged 96.
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The Queen’s cortege – a last farewell to Scotland, the land she loved
As Elizabeth’s coffin leaves Balmoral on its way to Edinburgh, her neighbours in the village of Ballater say their parting will be sad, but restrained
The Queen will pay a slow farewell to Scotland on Sunday, as the cortege carrying her coffin leaves Balmoral and passes through Royal Deeside before travelling to Edinburgh and the Palace of Holyroodhouse
Her final journey has been carefully mapped, and progress through this heavily forested corner of the Cairngorm mountains will be slow. For most of the locals on Deeside, this will be their chance to say goodbye to someone they regarded as a cherished neighbour.
After passing Crathie Kirk, the small granite church the Queen attended on Sundays during her summer holidays in the Highlands, the hearse will reach the village of Ballater. Here the cortege will slow to walking pace so residents can pay their respects. Cars have been cleared from the main road and metal control barriers were clanging into place on Saturday afternoon, with bright yellow traffic cones guarding the route.
“Her Majesty was our neighbour, and when she comes through here it is going to be hard,” said Rev David Barr, minister of Glenmuick Church in Ballater, who hurried back from holiday when he heard the news, to toll the church bells 70 times. “People have seen it on TV, but when she passes it will be final.”
Ballater is one of the few places on Earth where the Queen and her family could pass unremarked. “We treat them as locals – they shop freely here. They’re always in the butchers!”
They were shopping at Lafferty’s just last week. “You feel like you know them when you’re chatting away. Generally, the other shoppers don’t even realise there’s royalty there.”
Balmoral and Deeside was reputedly the Queen’s favourite place for a break – the 61,500-acre estate, which reaches high into the Cairngorm mountains, her back garden. She raised Highland cattle here, stalked deer and took Land Rovers deep into the hills, occasionally surprising hill walkers.
Cementing a tradition begun by Queen Victoria, who acquired Balmoral with Prince Albert in the 1850s, the Queen immersed herself in Deeside life. She opened schools, attended Crathie Kirk – it was where Princess Anne married Timothy Laurence in 1992 – and patronised the Braemar Highland gathering. In a further sign of her frailty, she was unable to attend this month’s games;
Queen Elizabeth II
After Ballater, the hearse will travel eastwards along the A93 through Aboyne, Banchory and Peterculter, before taking the A90 south, passing Dundee and Perth. It will reach Edinburgh an estimated six hours later, where the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, will observe its passing along with other party leaders. The coffin will remain at Holyroodhouse Palace, her official residence in Scotland, before lying at rest on Monday at St Giles’ Cathedral.
The mood at Balmoral’s gates, where bouquets and posies have been resting against the low granite walls, the volume of flowers swelling and filling the air with a gentle aroma, has been restrained and undemonstrative.
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With the autumn sun offering a welcome break from heavy rain, a long, quiet queue had formed over the bridge to the gates.
It is the Aberdeenshire way, said Rob Adamson, a local who was born in 1953, the year of the Queen’s coronation. “I feel that how people are is reflected by what’s under your feet. And we’ve got granite, wind and weather,” he said. “We wouldn’t want to be seen to be demonstrative. If there are going to be tears, that would be for a private place.”
The Queen's final days at Balmoral - 'full of fun', Liz Truss meeting and sacred family time
The Queen died at the age of 96 surrounded by her family at her beloved Balmoral estate - she spent her final days in her 'happiest' place in the Aberdeenshire countryside
Queen Elizabeth II left her beloved Balmoral for the final time on Sunday on a journey that stirred memories of her life of service.
Her cortege wended its way through villages and towns she knew well. It skirted cities where she opened hospitals, congratulated business leaders, met schoolchildren and greeted well-wishers.
As well as the villages of Aberdeenshire, where she was considered a neighbour as much as a monarch, it travelled through Aberdeen, then south through Angus, Dundee, Perth and Fife.
The Royal journey in Scotland
After the Royal cortege left Balmoral it passed close to Crathie Kirk - the church where the Royal family have worshipped since Queen Victoria in 1848.
It was an important place to Queen Elizabeth, a woman of great faith. Just last weekend she hosted the Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
He said she was "obviously frail...[but] absolutely on the ball", adding that she was "very much very engaged with what was happening in the church.
The Royal coffin travelled long the A93 towards Aberdeen, before turning south and crossing the King George VI bridge, named after her father.
The city was the focus of many trips by the Queen. It was where she opened a children's hospital in 2005 and hosted a special sitting of the Scottish Parliament in 2002.
Between Aberdeen and Dundee, the Royal coffin travelled along the A90, skirting the Angus town of Forfar.
Nearby is Glamis Castle, the ancestral home of the late Queen's maternal grandparents and a place where she is said to have spent many happy childhood holidays.
It was where her parents honeymooned and where her mother, Queen Elizabeth, gave birth to her sister, Princess Margaret in 1930.
The late Queen opened two bridges across the Forth during her 70 year reign - the Forth Road Bridge in 1964, and the Queensferry Crossing in August 2017.
Her coffin crossed the new Queensferry Crossing, which links Fife to Edinburgh.
She returned to the Forth Road Bridge in 2014 to mark its 50th anniversary and was back just three years later to cut the ribbon on its £1.35bn replacement.
Queen Elizabeth II said the Queensferry Crossing, the UK's tallest bridge, was a "breath-taking sight" and one of three "magnificent structures" across the Forth.
At the end of its journey, the Royal coffin was taken to the Palace of Holyroodhouse - the Royal residence opposite the Scottish Parliament building.
The late Queen officially opened the £431m building in 2004 - three years late and over budget.
In a speech to MSPs she acknowledged the construction's "difficult and controversial birth" and urged them to make Holyrood a "landmark of 21st Century democracy".
'Highland paradise'
The Queen and Prince Philip had a small cottage on the Balmoral Estate called Craig Gowan house.
"She called it her Highland paradise", Mr Harrold told BBC Radio Four.
"It was very humble compared to the castle. It was described to me as that's where they would play Mr and Mrs and obviously that was where they could just be themselves.
Councillor Geva Blackett, who represents Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside, said the Queen's death was a matter of great sadness locally but the strong links with the Royal Family would remain.
"She was one of the most remarkable people to ever have lived," she said. "She is going to be incredibly missed."
She added: "His Majesty also has very close links. He has been so involved over the years and given so much to the area."
Robert Lacey, royal historian and author of the "The Queen: A Life in Brief", said Balmoral was a special place to the Queen.
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