Sophie Wessex comforts Princess Anne as Queen's coffin carried into Holyroodhouse
The Countess of Wessex was pictured comforting Princess Anne as she watched Queen Elizabeth II's coffin being carried into the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on Sunday.
In the emotional moment, deference to the monarch was still observed, with the royal women curtseying and the men bowing their heads. It will then travel in a procession to St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, along the Royal Mile with the King and the late Queen's other children the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex following behind on foot, along with Anne's husband.
On Wednesday at 2.22pm, adorned with the Imperial State Crown, the coffin will be taken in procession on a Gun Carriage of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery to the Palace of Westminster, where she will lie in state in Westminster Hall for four days.Hundreds of thousands of mourners are expected along the route of the silent procession, similar to the state funeral of the Queen's father, King George VI, in 1952.
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