The Queen’s children surround her coffin in emotional vigil in Edinburgh

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During Monday’s ceremonies, the Duke of York, who is no longer a part of the working Royal family, did not wear his military uniform. He instead wore a morning suit, while his siblings wore their ceremonial dress.

He will be permitted to wear the uniform of a Vice Admiral of the Navy, the only military rank that he still holds, on one occasion – a vigil around the late Queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall – as a “final mark of respect” for his mother.

However, the Duke of Sussex will not be permitted to wear military uniform at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral or any events leading up to it.

On Monday, the Duke of Sussex paid tribute to the “everlasting grace” and “infectious smile” of his grandmother, saying even in the depths of grief he could “smile knowing that you and grandpa are reunited now, and both together in peace” .

The King offered his own warm words in the Houses of Parliament, after hearing expressions of condolence from MPs and peers.

He promised “faithfully to follow” the example of his mother, adding: “As Shakespeare says of the earlier Queen Elizabeth, she was ‘a pattern to all princes living’.”

In the afternoon, he spoke in the Scottish Parliament to tell members he would “take up my new duties with thankfulness for all that Scotland has given me, with resolve to seek always the welfare of our country and its people”.

He also described how the late Queen considered Scotland to be “a haven and a home”.

The King said: “Through all the years of her reign, the Queen, like so many generations of our family before her, found in the hills of this land and in the hearts of its people, a haven and a home.

“My mother felt, as I do, the greatest admiration of the Scottish people for their magnificent achievements and their indomitable spirit, and it was the greatest comfort for her to know in turn the true affection in which she was held.

“The knowledge of that deep and abiding bond must be to us the solace as we mourn the end of a life of incomparable service.”

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