And on Wednesday, the coffin will be led in a procession from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, where the queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall until Sept.
On Tuesday, the coffin will travel by air to RAF Northolt, a Royal Air Force station in England, before it's transported to Buckingham Palace by road, the palace said. The queen's coffin will then lie at rest in the cathedral to allow the country's people to pay their respects. There, King Charles III and members of the Royal family will attend a service, according to the palace. On Monday, the coffin will be taken to the St. On Sunday, it will travel by road to Edinburgh, Scotland, making its way to the to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, where it will stay until Monday, the palace said. The queen's coffin, which currently resides in the ballroom at Balmoral Castle, will make multiple stops as it travels to London ahead of the state funeral, Buckingham Palace said in a statement Saturday. 19 at Westminster Abbey in London.įollowing the ceremony, Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, as well as Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, reunited at Windsor Castle in the afternoon, appearing to put aside their rift to pay tribute to their late grandmother. Buckingham Palace announced Saturday that the queen's state funeral will take place Sep. The ceremony is part of long-established and highly choreographed plans for the days of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday.
The meeting of the Accession Council was attended by Charles, his son and heir William, whose new title is Prince of Wales, and wife Camilla, Queen Consort, as well as a host of senior political and religious figures.Ī statement was issued to the public from the balcony of the palace and read throughout Britain. James’s Palace in London was followed by gun salutes, fanfare and declarations across the United Kingdom. LONDON - King Charles III was publicly proclaimed Britain’s new monarch Saturday, in a modern version of an Anglo-Saxon ceremony steeped in political symbolism that was televised for the first time.
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