The emotion of escorting on her final journey was writ large on 's face today, as she was driven alongside the hearse carrying her mother's coffin to Edinburgh. While and the extended returned to England ahead of yesterday's historic proclamation ceremony and a walkabout to see floral tributes at Windsor Castle, the 72-year-old Princess Royal had taken on the hardest role of all - seeing the late monarch leave her beloved Balmoral for one final time. Seated next to her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, in the royal Bentley for the six-hour journey from Aberdeenshire to Edinburgh, where her mother will lie in state, the usually stoic Princess Royal couldn't hide her grief.
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