“Apparently she gave a lazy salute to the casket that has been compared to shooing away a fly.” According to TheTalko, Margaret felt as though “Diana had turned her back on the Royal Family”. In the UK we, like many other cultures, lower our heads as a sign of respect at a funeral as the cortege passes. Queen Elizabeth was so profoundly formed by, and often so deeply resembles, Queen Mary. While it is conventional for others to bow to her, she is not technically required to bow to others. And yet, she bowed. According to Arbiter, in 2020 the only person members of the royal family would usually curtsy or bow to is Queen Elizabeth, and even then, only … The Queen is not expected to bow to anyone, even in death, so this is not something she does at Royal Funerals. (Even Prince Philip has to bow to the queen.) Royal family curtsy protocol dictates you acknowledge the important people in the room in a specific order that, to be honest, is a little hard to follow. In 2013, she laid a wreath and subsequently lowered her head toward it on Remembrance Day , a holiday honoring armed forces members killed in conflict, a YouTube video posted by The Telegraph shows. Getty Images / Ideal Image. The Queen has been on the throne for … As a result, Princess Diana was laid out at St. James's Palace, and the public funeral took place at Westminster Abbey. The Queen bowing at that time is considered one of the "strongest images of her entire reign." For her, I would suggest, that action was far more dramatic than Diana’s many expansive embraces as the “People’s Princess.” It might not have come naturally to Her Majesty, but it was undoubtedly a mindful and sincere honor. “According to sources, when Diana passed away in 1997, Margaret didn’t even bow her head in respect. DON’T MISS Margaret passed away in 2002. In June 1996, the Queen ordered Charles and Diana to divorce, something which was finally realised two months later. Moreover, after Diana’s death, there was quite a … Although the Queen was highly criticized in the wake of Lady Di's death, her small yet significant bowing at Diana's coffin sent a message of respect, compassion, and genuine grief. Princess Diana tragically passed away … She isn’t bowing. This isn’t referred to as bowing which is deferential, not simply respectful. But you’re not done curtsying or bowing once you’ve paid your respects to Queen Elizabeth. Pretty soon after the wedding, though, both the Queen's and Diana’s ideals as to what becoming princess meant would crumble and fall to the ground. The Queen, meanwhile, offered Diana a chance to find the home life she had been missing—Diana’s own mother had left home, and a broken marriage, when Diana was only six. Anyway, the queen made an unexpected gesture to her former daughter-in-law’s coffin that she rarely does for anyone else. Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the British monarchy and as such is bowed or curtsied to by nearly all who meet her. During the 1997 funeral for Princess Diana, the queen bowed her head as the coffin passed, according to the Daily Express.