Britain's princes William and Harry laid to rest the mother of the late Princess Diana on Thursday on the remote Scottish coast where she spent her last years shunning the royal family.
Frances Shand Kydd, whose own glamorous but unhappy marriage at a young age into the top reaches of British aristocracy mirrored that of her daughter the Princess of Wales, died last week at 68 of a long illness.
William, second in line to the throne, delivered a reading for his grandmother at a Roman Catholic mass at St. Columba's cathedral in Oban on Scotland's west coast.
William, 21, had returned from a university trip to Norway, and Harry, 19, flew in from Botswana, after a seven hour road journey to the airport in the southern African country where he is doing a year's charity work.
The brothers arrived with other mourners on foot at the cathedral. Members of the press and public lined up outside.
Other senior royals not related by blood to Shand Kydd, including Diana's former husband Prince Charles, were not present. Palace officials said only immediate family had been invited.
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