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RICHARD KAY: Just for a moment it felt like turning back the clock. Both William and Harry, who are on their own with their wives, are radiating the same goodwill that we all took for granted. It was nearly as if the brotherly bond of love that had been so fragilely absent for the past two years had miraculously returned. Of course, it was difficult, and both of them seemed strained at times, with Harry especially hesitant as they honoured their grandmother's memory by greeting well-wishers and admiring the flowers outside Windsor Castle's gates on Saturday afternoon. Their common devoutment had existed for so many years, but trust and common reliance, which stemmed from their mother's tragic death in their early teens, had vanished in the aftermath of Harry and Meghan's painful separation from the Royal Family.

ROBERT HARDMAN: His Majesty is now home. From nearly 25 years ago, our new king had stopped her car short of Buckingham Palace and stepped outside to inspect a mountain of flowers, changing the mood of a mourning world in a flash. And so it was that her replacement did exactly the same yesterday afternoon, though she confessed to one well-wisher, 'I've been dreading this.' Police cleared a Moses-like path through Buckingham Palace's ever-swelling sea of multi-national mourners of every age and ilk. No state trumpeters could be heard. Instead, the news helicopters were chugging overhead. A laudably modest police motorcade came to a halt, and King Charles III stepped out for the first time to see his subjects, a red-eyed Queen Camilla at his side. At which point, commotions, complete, ferocious applause, rang out around the Palace precincts and up on a rammed Queen Victoria Memorial. The King had flicked a switch. The air was a bleak, lugubrious bewilderment that had perplexed London's SW1 earlier in the day. There was a sense of reassurance at last. We saw people actually smiling at the Palace gates for the first time in 24 hours. The applause was rather less tumultuous than the applause for the simple reason that modern Britain is unlikely to attend the opening of a cupboard without filming it on a cell phone.