Thousands of mourners lined the streets of the capital to pay their respects to the Queen as she left London for the last time. Crowds lined the route taken by the state hearse as it made its way from London to Windsor, with flowers thrown in its path.
Image source,The congregation included current Prime Minister Liz Truss and former prime ministers Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair and MajorThe Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex, William and Harry, were on different sides of the aisle looking sombre - and anyone trying to read the expression of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, or Catherine, Princess of Wales, were faced with the wide brim of their hats.
Four candles stood around the coffin. The orb and sceptre glowed. The Imperial State Crown was poking up from behind the spray of flowers. On the top of the crown was a big blue sapphire once worn on a ring by Edward the Confessor more than 900 years ago. The congregation stood up to sing The Lord's My Shepherd. It's one of those hymns that lulls you into its sadness. Voices begin to catch. "Though I walk through death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill."The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby had the impossible task of doing justice to the longest reign in British history. He spoke straight to the point. A woman of deep faith had gone to her final rest in the firm conviction of her beliefs.
A piper played a lament as the Queen was carried slowly towards the Abbey doors, the same doors where she'd once stood on her wedding day as a 21-year-old bride. On her coffin was a sprig of myrtle grown from a cutting from her wedding bouquet.
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