A photo collage of four pictures showing Queen Elizabeth II shedding tears at Prince Philip’s funeral is doing rounds on social media.
One of the posts was shared on Facebook with a caption that reads, “Sad moment, but the queen was so elegant.”
Here’s the link to the above post.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the claim and found it to be misleading.
Starting with our investigation, we searched for Queen Elizabeth’s images from Prince Philip’s funeral.
In the viral post, red poppies can be seen on the Queen’s left shoulder, however, the Queen did not wear red poppies next to her brooch at Prince Philip’s funeral, as shown in Reuters pool photos here and here.
Moreover, the queen can be seen wearing a black mask in the pictures from Prince Philip’s funeral.
Further, doing a Reverse Image Search, we found that top left and bottom right photos in the collage shared on social media were both taken at a Remembrance Sunday service in Westminster, London, on November 7, 2002, as seen on The Telegraph and Getty Images here and here.
The top right and bottom left photos show the Queen at the annual Remembrance Sunday service at The Cenotaph, London, on November 10, 2019, and November 12, 2017, respectively, as seen on Getty Images here and here.
Hence, from the above information, it is clear that old photos of Queen Elizabeth are being shared as recent. Thus, the post is misleading.
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