Buckingham Palace has announced that Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral will hold on September 19....CONTINUE READING
THEWILL earlier reported that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, had died on Thursday, at 96.
The Palace said in a statement that the queen’s coffin is at her summer residence, Balmoral Castle, in Scotland, where she died on Thursday. The coffin will travel to Edinburgh on Sunday, to lie in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the British monarch’s official residence in Scotland.
The Palace also said the queen’s body will be taken to St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, west of London, for a committal service.
Her body is currently in an oak coffin covered by the Royal Standard for Scotland, with a wreath of flowers on top, in the ballroom of Balmoral Castle, in northeast Scotland.
According to the Palace, the late monarch’s coffin will lie in state in Westminster Hall starting on Wednesday, giving the public an opportunity to pay their respects.
The queen’s coffin will be taken on a 180-mile (290-kilometre) trip by road from the remote estate to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on Sunday.
In the Scottish capital, the coffin will be taken from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles’s Cathedral to lie at rest until Tuesday.
It will then be taken by air to Buckingham Palace in London, before lying in state at Westminster Hall from Wednesday.
It is expected that either the Dean of Westminster or the Archbishop of Canterbury, the senior bishop of the Church of England, will lead the service.
Many dignitaries, eminent personalities around the world have continued to pay glowing tributes to the late monarch.
