Prince Harry reported landing in the UK before Philip’s funeral

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The Duke of Sussex is said to have been seen at Heathrow Airport in London disembarking from a British Airways flight from Los Angeles at 1:15 p.m., the Sun newspaper reported citing an eyewitness.

Official sources have declined to comment on Harry’s travel moves, but a Buckingham Palace spokesman said over the weekend that the prince “plans to attend” his grandfather’s funeral in Windsor on Saturday.

The trip is the first time Harry has returned to the UK since he and his wife Meghan retired as members of the senior family last March.

It is likely that Harry will want to follow existing regulations on coronavirus travel for international travelers to the UK and ensure a quarantine period before attending the funeral.

According to these rules, travelers must complete a passenger location form and provide proof of a negative coronavirus test before leaving for the UK.

Once in England, visitors must quarantine at home for 10 days or in a managed quarantine hotel. During compulsory quarantine, two additional tests of Covid-19 are required on days two and eight.

Harry could use the UK government’s “release testing” system to end his early forties. It allows a person to take a private test of Covid-19 on the fifth day after arrival to free themselves from personal isolation if the test result is again negative. They have to be quarantined while waiting for the test result.

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There is also a guide for mourners entering the country that allows them to leave personal isolation in “limited circumstances” for reasons of compassion that includes “attending a funeral of a family member, a close relative, or from a friend “. The individual must isolate himself at all other times.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will not join her husband for the funeral. She is expecting the couple’s second baby this summer and “her doctor has advised her not to travel to the UK” from California where they live, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said on Saturday.

The Queen has approved a ceremony tailored to the plan the Duke of Edinburgh agreed to years ago to respect pandemic restrictions.

Prince Philip will be placed in a private funeral in St George’s Chapel in Windsor, in what is known as the “royal ceremonial funeral”, and will not be in the state, according to arrangements made by the Palace in the press.

According to the royal protocol, state funerals are usually reserved for monarchs, so the duke’s funeral will be similar to that of the queen mother in 2002, the spokesman explained.

The revised arrangements have been made in “close consultation” with government and public health officials to comply with social distancing guidelines that limit funerals to 30 people.

CNN’s James Frater and Lindsay Issac contributed to this report.

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