Seated a distant third row from his brother William, Prince of Wales, one might expect Prince Harry to have been a tad defiant toward the royal family. Instead, body language expert Mark Bowden told Nicki Swift the prince’s body language suggested he was not in his usual defensive state. Nonetheless, he didn’t seem too pleased with his seating position. “He takes time to settle into his third-row seat as a non-senior member of the non-working royals. He shifts his weight and adjusts in his chair, showing some level of physical and potentially psychological discomfort,” Bowden explained.
Despite his apparent discomfort, however, Harry exuded a sense of pride, showing off some of the medals he received from his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. With this act, Bowden believes the prince demonstrated that he still feels a sense of duty to the monarchy. And, perhaps in his biggest attempt to ease up to his seating position, the prince engaged in a light-hearted conversation with his cousins, letting out heartfelt smiles in between. “Today, Harry seems to play the role of a fun and dutiful family member, balancing the more austere composure of the senior working royals from whom he has been placed at a distance,” Bowden added.
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Of course, the coronation was not the first time Harry has been snubbed by his estranged family. At Queen Elizabeth’s funeral back in September 2022, Harry and his wife Meghan Markle were seated in the second row, beside Princess Beatrice and right behind King Charles and the Prince of Wales, as reported by Page Six.
