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The Royal Family’s social media team embarrassingly had to delete two tweets after wrongly claiming Princess Alexandra was at the Remembrance Day service and misspelling the Countess of Wessex’s title.
The official account said the late Queen’s cousin was part of a list of royal attendees at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, even though she cancelled her involvement moments before it took place.
And although Sophie Wessex, the late monarch’s daughter-in-law, was at the service on Sunday she was not mentioned in the original post.
The original tweet read: ‘A wreath was laid on behalf of The Queen Consort, who joined The Princess of Wales, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent, Princess Alexandra and Sir Tim Laurence to watch the service from the @FCDOGovUK balcony.’
The second tweet was swiftly deleted and put right with a third tweet correcting both the original mishap and spelling mistake (Pictured: The Queen Consort, left, and the Princess of Wales, right, attend the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph)
The social media post did not mention that Sophie Wessex (pictured), the Queen’s daughter-in-law, was at the service on Sunday
The official account said Princess Alexandra was part of a list of royal attendees even though she had cancelled her engagement at the last minute
Staff then made another mishap when they deleted the old tweet and published a new one with Sophie Wessex included.
The post read: ‘A wreath was laid on behalf of The Queen Consort, who joined The Princess of Wales, The Counteas of Wessex, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent and Sir Tim Laurence to watch the service from the @FCDOGovUK balcony.’
The second tweet was swiftly deleted and put right with a third post correcting both the original mishap and spelling mistake.
The social media error came as the King led a series of moving tributes to the British Armed Forces on Sunday for the first time as monarch as the nation fell silent to honour those killed since World War One.
A two-minute silence took place across the UK at 11am and wreaths were laid by members of the royal family, senior politicians and faith representatives at the Cenotaph in London.
Charles laid a new poppy wreath incorporating a ribbon of his racing colours, with the design a tribute to the ones used by both his late mother and his grandfather George VI.
Big Ben chimed eleven times at 11am, as it returns to service after years of maintenance and repair.
Meanwhile, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle also marked the occasion by sharing a photo of themselves at a military ceremony in The Hague, taken during their trip to The Netherlands for the Invictus Games in April.
The image was released as Prince Harry surprised onlookers with the trip to the USS Arizona Memorial in Honolulu. He cut a relaxed figure with an unbuttoned top collar and a casual blue suit, with a poppy pinned to his lapel.
To mark this year’s occasion, Harry and Meghan also shared a photograph showing them in front of military personnel to mark Veterans Day and Remembrance Day (pictured)
The royal, who was without his wife Meghan Markle, 41, and their children Archie and Lilibet, spent time talking to the families who were also visiting the memorial on that day.
Photographs of his visit were later shared online by royal fans, who commented it ‘looked like the Duke was there for Veteran’s Day’.
Harry served in the military for a decade and had two tours of Afghanistan. He has also organised the Invictus Games for wounded and injured service members and veterans since 2014.
He is no longer permitted to wear military dress, however, after being stripped of the right when he left the Royal Family, but is still permitted to wear the medals he earned – although he wasn’t wearing them for this outing.
Prince Harry made a solo visit Pearl Harbor in Hawaii over the weekend as he marked Remembrance Sunday – while members of the royal family gathered at the Cenotaph
Since quitting royal duties in January 2020, Prince Harry has been left to mark Remembrance Day independently.
In 2020, the couple who are now based in California following Megxit, ‘personally recognised’ Remembrance Day by visiting the Los Angeles National cemetery to pay their respects to fallen Commonwealth soldiers, while last year they made a surprise visit to a New Jersey military base.
But the pair came under fire for arranging for a photographer to capture their personal act of Remembrance in 2020, being criticised for enlisting Lee Morgan to release pictures from the moment.
At the time, Harry was said to be upset that he’d been refused permission for a wreath to be laid at the Cenotaph on his behalf because he was no longer a working royal.
