Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton looked like best mates as they arrived at the Royal Family’s Christmas Day church service amid claims of a growing rift between them.
The pair were all smiles and chatted as they walked shoulder-to-shoulder, along with their husbands, in front of an adoring crowd of hundreds.
All eyes were on pregnant Meghan, 37, and Kate, 36, as they made one of their first public appearances together since the claims of a fallout emerged.
It is Meghan’s first Christmas as a member of the Royal Family, and the last before she becomes a mum for the first time.
Well-wishers shouted Merry Christmas as the group passed by.
The time-honoured tradition was led once again by the 92-year-old Queen at the church in the grounds of her private Norfolk country getaway.
Her husband, Prince Philip, who has retired from public duties, did not attend the service.
But a Buckingham Palace source told Reuters the 97-year-old Duke of Edinburgh is in perfectly good health and is just spending the day privately.
The Queen arrived in her state limousine with the Duke of York.
Behind the lead group strode Peter Phillips holding the hands of his daughters Savannah and Isla, and they were followed by Princess Beatrice and Peter’s wife Autumn Phillips.
A few metres behind were Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank, who smiled at the crowds as they walked towards the church.