The moment Prince Harry participated in an emotional tribute to his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, has been praised by fans after footage captured before her state funeral in 2022 has gone viral on social-media site TikTok.

Harry has spoken on a number of occasions about the special bond he shared with his grandmother and how it influenced him throughout his life. In an interview given before the queen’s death, Harry said: “We have a really special relationship; we talk about things that she can’t talk about with anyone else.”

 

Harry became Elizabeth’s fourth grandchild when he was born in 1984, the youngest son of King Charles III (when Prince of Wales) and Princess Diana. He regularly interacted with his grandmother at official events and, after leaving the British Army in 2015, served her as a full-time working royal until his move to the U.S. with Meghan Markle five years later.

When the monarch died at the age of 96 while staying at her Scottish home of Balmoral Castle on September 8, 2022, Harry and Meghan fortuitously happened to be visiting Britain at the time to attend charity events.

 

Harry flew to Scotland when it was announced that the queen’s health was failing, but arrived just as her death was being announced on the news. This set in motion a number of mourning events in the buildup to her state funeral on September 19 in London.

Uploaded to TikTok by user @jona_m_m_13, on June 19, footage from one of the most emotionally charged of these events has gone viral, being viewed almost 200,000 times on the video-sharing platform so far.

Captured during the monarch’s lying-in-state, where her coffin was placed at Westminster Hall in London for members of the public to pay their respects, a special ceremony took place; all of the queen’s eight grandchildren came together in tribute to honor her.