Kate Middleton: Queen Was "Looking Down on Us" When 5 Rainbows Appeared
The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, shared a personal reflection on the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
According to People, while the princess met with staff who assisted in organizing the Queen’s committal service, she told them “the royal family felt the late monarch’s presence when five rainbows astonishingly appeared over Balmoral Castle the day after she died.”
“‘In Scotland, how many rainbows turned up?’ Prince William asked his wife at Windsor Guildhall on Thursday. ‘You hardly ever see rainbows up there, but there were five.'”
“‘Her Majesty was looking down on us,’ Princess Kate replied.”
News agencies around the world reported on several spectacular rainbows appearing in the days surrounding the long-reigning queen’s death.
CBS News posted this report to their YouTube channel on the double rainbow that appeared over Buckingham Palace.
“It’s long arc, a reminder of her long reign and her lasting legacy, not just as monarch but as mother and grandmother, a wife of seventy-three years, a lover of her corgis and horses. Her greatest devotion was to the service of the Commonwealth.”
On September 18th, as the Queen’s coffin was lying in state, another rainbow appeared over Westminster Palace.
Prince William and his wife, Kate, have been making public appearances, carrying on their royal responsibilities even as they process their grief, although it’s not always easy.
The New York Post quotes Prince William remarking, “It is the things you don’t expect that get to you,” he noted. “It is always very comforting that so many people care. It makes it a lot better. There are certain moments that catch you out. You are prepared for all but certain moments catch you out.”
The Queen was well-known for her deep faith in Jesus Christ and that was apparent in the prayers and Scripture readings that marked her funeral, a funeral she planned.
In Genesis, God set a rainbow in the sky following the great flood and promised Noah it was a sign of His covenant. The Bible says it was a sign of God’s covenant between Himself and the earth.
“And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations” (Genesis 9:12, ESV)
It’s fitting that for a Queen who loved Jesus, the days around her death would draw the world’s eyes heavenward in remembrance.
People magazine states, “For the young woman never meant to be monarch, the end brought a quiet homecoming.”
Indeed, in saying goodbye to a world leader who was, at her core, a woman who loved God and family, the rainbows remind us all that in Jesus, beyond the door of death, there is eternal life.
