‘Mum would’ve loved this’: Hundreds line streets to catch glimpse of royalspublished at 10:52 British Summer Time
Daniel Wittenberg
Reporting from Windsor
Maryna, Candice, Linda and Michelle are eagerly waiting for the carriage procession led by King Charles and President Macron
Several
hundred people are already lining Windsor’s high street, where British and
French flags are fluttering side by side in the sunshine.
The
crowd is waiting for the carriage procession led by King Charles and President
Macron – though many are especially keen to catch a glimpse of the Princess of
Wales, who is making a gradual return to public life after her cancer diagnosis
last year.
Maryna
Kosydar, 45, has taken the day off work to be here. Originally from Ukraine,
Maryna now lives in Windsor and says she is determined not to miss the
occasion.
“It’s
very British. This country does these events so well,” she tells me.
Maryna
is standing by the barriers outside Windsor Castle with a group of women from
different parts of the world who all met for the first time this morning.
Among them is Michelle
David, from Bridgend in South Wales, who says she’s here partly in tribute to her
mother, who died two months ago.
“She
would have loved this,” she says. “We often came here to Windsor together, so
it feels right to be here today.”
Over from across the Atlantic are sisters-in-law Linda
and Candice from Boston, Massachusetts, who stumbled upon the preparations while exploring Windsor at the weekend, and came back to see it.