Princess Kate (40) met the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

As the British news agency PA reported, the Princess of Wales received Olena Selenska on Sunday afternoon at London's Buckingham Palace.

Selenska had previously visited the Queen's coffin laid out in the British Parliament.

Kate, who is married to heir apparent Prince William, has borne the title formerly borne by William's mother, Diana, since the Queen's death.

In addition to Selenska, numerous heads of state and government and crowned heads from all over the world had arrived at a reception at Buckingham Palace.

King Charles III

and King's wife Camilla had invited to the main residence of the British monarch in London.

Other members of the royal family should also attend.

TV pictures showed, among other things, how the former Spanish king Juan Carlos walked up the steps to the castle with a stick.

His son King Felipe VI.

and Queen Letizia and the Swedish royal couple Carl Gustav XVI.

and Silvia and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark were among the guests.

Later, French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden and Japanese Emperor Naruhito also arrived with their partners.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was also expected on this occasion.

Biden and First Lady bid farewell 

US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill had personally said goodbye to Elizabeth II on Sunday at her coffin laid out in the British Parliament.

Television images showed the Democratic politician and the First Lady of the United States silently watching the coffin from a dais on the edge of Westminster Hall early in the evening.

The US President crossed himself.

The couple were accompanied by US Ambassador to the UK Jane Hartley.

A short time later, the convoy left Parliament.

Jill Biden waved to people who had gathered at the side of the road.

The Bidens and hundreds of other leaders, monarchs and other dignitaries are expected to attend the Queen's funeral service at Westminster Abbey on Monday.

The coffin of the Queen, who died on September 8 at the age of 96, has been laid out in Parliament since Wednesday.

Many thousands took the opportunity to pay their respects to their monarch, queuing for hours in a kilometer-long queue.

The public display should not end until Monday morning.

election campaign during funeral ceremonies

Despite a significant deficit in the polls, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has shown himself confident of victory two weeks before the presidential election.

Bolsonaro made the statement in London, where he was attending the funeral services for the late Queen Elizabeth II.

"It's impossible that we don't win in the first round," Bolsonaro said from the Brazilian ambassador's residence, where supporters had gathered, as the Brazilian news portal "G1" reported on Sunday.

"Where I go, the acceptance is just extraordinary."

Polls have been suggesting for weeks that the right-wing agitator in Latin America's largest country will be replaced after this term.

Bolsonaro was behind ex-president and left-wing icon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the latest survey by the polling institute Datafolha on Thursday.

According to the current status, Lula can hope for around 45 percent of the votes in the first round of voting on October 2nd.

Bolsonaro would therefore receive about 33 percent of the votes.

Far behind is the social democratic politician Ciro Gomes, who got 8 percent in the poll.

In Brazil it was expected that Bolsonaro would also use the London trip for election campaign purposes - also to show that he is not internationally isolated.