「思い出よみがえった」 英皇太子、女王葬列での心境吐露

【ＡＦＰ＝時事】英国のウィリアム皇太子（４０）は１５日、前日に祖母エリザベス女王のひつぎの後ろを歩いた際、子ども時代に母親のダイアナ元皇太子妃の葬列で同様の行進をしたつらい記憶がよみがえったと明かした。（写真は英サンドリンガム離宮の門に備えられた花束を見るウィリアム皇太子とキャサリン皇太子妃）
　ウィリアム皇太子は妻のキャサリン皇太子妃と共に、イングランド東部サンドリンガムの離宮前に花を供えに訪れた人々と交流。英衛星放送スカイニューズは、皇太子がその際、人々に「昨日の行進はつらかった。思い出が少しよみがえった」と語る様子を伝えた。
　皇太子は１４日、バッキンガム宮殿からウェストミンスターに移される祖母のひつぎの後ろを弟のヘンリー王子と共に歩いた。兄弟は１５歳と１２歳だった１９９７年、亡き母ダイアナ元妃のひつぎの後ろを歩き、世界中の人々の心を揺さぶった。
　ウィリアム皇太子は花を手にした女性グループに、「覚悟はできていると思っていたのに、実はそこまで覚悟はできていなかったと感じた瞬間だった」と打ち明けた。
　チャールズ国王と王室メンバーは、ウェストミンスター寺院で１９日に行われる葬儀の前後に再び女王のひつぎの後ろを歩くことになっている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/09/16-16:17）

Britain's Prince William revealed Thursday that walking behind Queen Elizabeth II's coffin had brought back painful memories, after doing the same for his mother Diana when he was a teenager.
William, now titled the Prince of Wales, spoke to mourners leaving flowers at the monarch's private Sandringham estate in eastern England, accompanied by his wife Catherine.
Doing the walk yesterday was challenging. It brought back a few memories, William, 40, told a group of well-wishers who had come to see him, Sky News footage showed.
William walked behind his grandmother's coffin on Wednesday as it was moved from Buckingham Palace to Westminster, beside his younger brother Prince Harry.
Back in 1997, the brothers, then aged 15 ands 12, moved the world by walking behind their late mother Diana's coffin.
It's one of those moments when you think to yourself: I've prepared myself for this, but I'm not that prepared, William told a group of women supporters, some of them holding flowers.
The royal family traditionally spend Christmas together at Sandringham, with Queen Elizabeth staying on into February.
Receptionist Jane Wells, 54, said she told William how proud his mother would have been of him, and he said how hard it was yesterday because it brought back memories of his mother's funeral.
Caroline Barwick-Walters, 66, from Wales, said: He told us how difficult it was yesterday, how it brought back memories of walking behind his mother's coffin.
William and Kate held a walkabout for almost an hour on Thursday, looking at floral tributes to Queen Elizabeth and shaking people's hands.
King Charles III and members of the royal family will again follow the late monarch's coffin on foot before and after her funeral at London's Westminster Abbey on Monday.