: I see that the current (2nd) Earl of Gowrie is a “long-time friend of Charles and Camilla”.  He succeeded his grandfather in 1955 (when he was 16), and his grandmother the Dowager Countess of Gowrie (Zara) died in 1965, when he was 26.  Prince Charles was only 16 at that time, so I can’t imagine that any friendship he may have had with the 2nd Earl of Gowrie (if indeed the friendship goes back that far) had anything to do with Lady Gowrie having her funeral in St George’s Chapel.  Odd.