Kate Garraway paid a 'silent' but very noticeable tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as she hosted Good Morning Britain on Friday.
Kate has been a frequent presence on screen in the week since Her Majesty's death at the age of 96 on Thursday, September 8. As the ITV show broke with tradition and aired across last weekend, Kate appeared live from outside Buckingham Palace at the start of Saturday's live broadcast, to reflect on King Charles III's first address to the nation a night earlier, before being in the studio on Sunday as the Queen's coffin began its journey home from Balmoral, with a journey across Scotland to Edinburgh.
Kate was back in the studio on Friday alongside GMB colleague Ben Shephard and it didn't take long for viewers at home to clock that she was wearing a set of pearls to accessorise her black outfit in a clear nod to Her Majesty's love of the jewellery. During her remarkable reign, Queen Elizabeth was rarely seen without her favourite three strand pearl necklace, a gift from her late father, King George VI, who passed away in 1952.
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Kate spoke about King George in the early part of the programme, saying that the Queen's funeral on Monday will surpass the scale of her father's and "be more like Queen Victoria's," in terms of the massive attention it receives, adding that it presents "a huge logistical challenge," to those involved in the organisation of the state event and those responsible for the security.
Last weekend, Kate praised King Charles for his first televised speech as new monarch, telling her co-stars: ": "I can't help but feel that was coloured with the recent emotions; the sorrow he's been going through in the last 24 hours and I think it did a lot, it's palpably changed the mood here this morning.
"We talked yesterday about the awful sorrow at the loss of The Queen and layered on top of that, that feeling of uncertainty and lack of continuity after we lost something that we'd taken for granted in many ways for 70 years. And I think in that speech he hit lots of notes to reassure people."
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