BBC News 29 March 2022 - by Sean Coughlan and Lauren Turner
The Queen is attending the service of thanksgiving for the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey.
Other senior members of the Royal Family are also at the memorial at Westminster Abbey for Prince Philip, who died last year aged 99.
The service is celebrating his public service and a "long life lived fully".
It is the first major event this year attended by the 95-year-old monarch.
She travelled to the service from Windsor Castle with the Duke of York. It is Prince Andrew's first public appearance since the settlement of a civil sex assault case in the US.
The Queen has had problems with her mobility and had to pull out of the Commonwealth Service earlier this month. She also tested positive for Covid in February.
Special measures have been put in place for her comfort, including keeping the length of the service to 45 minutes. She is also expected to enter through the back of the Abbey via Poet's Corner, as this is a shorter route to her seat.
Other senior members of the Royal Family - including Prince Charles and Camilla, and Prince William and Catherine - are attending the thanksgiving service.
But Prince Harry, who has been in a legal dispute over the provision of security, has not travelled from California, where he lives.
Andrew is seated in the front row for the service, close to his brother the Earl of Wessex, and his family. Across the aisle, in order of their seating, are the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.
Prince George and Princess Charlotte are attending with their parents William and Catherine. Their seats are in the row behind the Queen.
Other guests include Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other political leaders.
Dean of Westminster David Hoyle paid tribute to the duke in his opening address, saying he was a "man of rare ability and distinction" who had "put privilege to work and understood his rank as a spur to service".
Prince Philip died last April, during Covid regulations that restricted gatherings including funerals and memorials.
Keeping to the rules meant that his funeral had to be limited to 30 guests, producing a memorable image of the Queen sitting alone.
This service includes elements that had been planned for Prince Philip's funeral, such as the entry to Westminster Abbey being lined by Duke of Edinburgh gold award winners.
The hymn Guide me, O thou great redeemer, also intended for the funeral, will be sung, along with music by Beethoven, JS Bach, Wagner, Vaughan Williams and William Byrd.
The Queen and Prince Philip had been married for 73 years and in her Christmas message the Queen spoke in unusually personal terms about the loss of her "beloved" Philip.
Wearing a brooch she had worn on their honeymoon, she remembered her "irrepressible" husband and his "capacity to squeeze fun out of any situation".
The service is intended to reflect the duke's life, work and enthusiasms, with the congregation including representatives of some of the 700 charitable organisations that he supported.
They will range from the Outward Bound Trust and Voluntary Services Overseas to the Caravan and Motorhome Club.
Many charities had a focus on inspiring young people and giving them wider opportunities. There was also an emphasis on conservation and protecting the environment.
Representatives of foreign royal families, including the duke's native Greece, are also attending.
Prince Philip's love of the sea and his links with the Armed Forces are being heard during the service in the music of the Royal Marines band, which will conclude with a piece called The Seafarers.
The flowers on display include orchids, a reference to the orchids in the Queen's wedding bouquet.
She and Prince Philip were married in 1947 at Westminster Abbey, where her coronation was later held, and now where she is attending her husband's memorial.
