Here's how Britain will say goodbye to its longest-reigning monarch.
On Sunday 11 September, the Queen’s coffin will be brought from Balmoral, where she died peacefully on 8 September, to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where it will rest in the Throne Room until the following afternoon.
On Monday 12 September, the King and other members of the royal family will join a procession to convey the coffin to St Giles’s Cathedral in the city, and attend a service in the cathedral. The Queen’s coffin will then lie at rest, guarded by Vigils from The Royal Company of Archers, to allow the people of Scotland to pay their respects, Buckingham Palace said.
On the afternoon of Tuesday 13 September, the Princess Royal will accompany her mother’s coffin as it travels from Scotland by RAF aircraft from Edinburgh Airport to RAF Northolt. It will then be conveyed to Buckingham Palace by road, to rest in the Bow Room. The following afternoon, the Queen’s coffin will be borne in procession on a Gun Carriage of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery to the Palace of Westminster.
The Queen, Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh, and behind them Prince William and Prince Harry, at the Queen Mother’s funeral in 2002.The Queen’s state funeral will take place on Monday 19 September.The Queen’s funeral will take place in Westminster Abbey, the same historic church in which she married the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947, and where her Coronation was held six years later.
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